Demonstrating how to user Heroicpixels/Filterable with Eloquent joins and eager loading

gistfile1.txt

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `cats` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

INSERT INTO `cats` (`id`, `name`) VALUES
(1, 'Category One'),
(2, 'Category Two');

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `cat_object` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `cat_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `object_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

INSERT INTO `cat_object` (`id`, `cat_id`, `object_id`) VALUES
(1, 1, 1),
(2, 2, 1);

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `objects` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `color` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `shape` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `size` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `total` int(11) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `id` (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci AUTO_INCREMENT=7 ;

INSERT INTO `objects` (`id`, `name`, `color`, `shape`, `size`, `total`) VALUES
(1, 'Object 1', 'red', 'square', 'l', 150),
(2, 'Object 2', 'blue', 'square', 's', 2000),
(3, 'Object 3', 'green', 'circle', 'm', 575),
(4, 'Object 4', 'yellow', 'triangle', 'xl', 15),
(5, 'Object 5', 'red', 'triangle', 'l', 900),
(6, 'Object 6', 'red', 'triangle', 'l', 600);

class Object extends Heroicpixels\Filterable\Filterable {
	public function categories()
	{
		return $this->belongsToMany('Cat');	
	}
}

class Cat extends Heroicpixels\Filterable\Filterable {
	
}

/**
 *	Join
 */
$columns = array('color'	=> 'objects.color',
		 'name'		=> 'objects.name',
		 'shape'	=> 'objects.shape',
		 'category'	=> 'cat_object.cat_id');
$objects = Object::join('cat_object', 'objects.id', '=', 'cat_object.object_id')
		   ->filterColumns($columns)
		   ->get()->toArray();
				   
/**
 *	Eager load
 */
$columns = array('color' => 'objects.color',
		 'name'	 => 'objects.name',
		 'shape' => 'objects.shape');
$results = array();
$objects = Object::with(array('categories' => function($q) {
	$columns = array('category' => 'cat_object.cat_id');
	$q->filterColumns($columns);
}))->filterColumns($columns)->get()->toArray();