I am using Eloquent ORM and I have Book model which connect to BookCategory model and BookCategory connect to Category. The l'm problem facing is how to include data from third table in eloquent relationships?
Book
id
name
Category
id
name
type
BookCategory
id
book_id
category_id
Lets say for example you want to get all the books of a certain category: assuming your pivot table name is Book_Category in your Category model:
public function books()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Models\Book', 'Book_Category', 'category_id', 'book_id');
}
and you can eager load category books like :
$categories = Category::get()->load('books');
//OR
$categories = Category::with('books')->get();
If I understand you right, you are looking for the pivot attribute. This makes additional columns of the intermediate table available.
https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent-relationships#retrieving-intermediate-table-columns