Quick and Dirty Laravel Many to Many example

LaravelExample.php

//So you have your pivot table all set up.... So in a "Role," model (ha!) you would set up a many to many relationship like so:
<?php
public function users()
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany('\App\User');
    }
    
//and in your User model you would do something like:
public function roles()
    {

        return $this->belongsToMany('\App\Role');

    }
    
//and in your controller you would do something like this to get a user with their roles

$this->UserWithRoles = Auth::user()->with('roles')->get();

//and to update the users roles pivot table you could do something like this

User::roles()->attach($data['role_name']);

//and to remove a User's roles from the pivot table you could do something like this
User::roles()->detach();