Get distinct emails of users who commented on a ticket in Laravel - eloquent

Question

I have the following models.
Ticket
class Ticket extends Model
{
protected $fillable = ['title', 'content', 'slug', 'status', 'user_id'];
protected $guarded = ['id'];
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\User', 'user_id');
}
public function comments()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Comment', 'post_id', 'id');
}
public function commenters()
{
return $this->hasManyThrough('App\User', 'App\Comment');
}
}
Comment
class Comment extends Model
{
protected $guarded = ['id'];
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\User', 'user_id', 'id');
}
public function ticket()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Ticket', 'post_id', 'id');
}
public function post()
{
return $this->morphTo();
}
}
User
class User extends Model implements AuthenticatableContract, CanResetPasswordContract
{
use Authenticatable, CanResetPassword;
protected $guarded = ['id'];
protected $hidden = [
'password', 'remember_token',
];
}
A ticket has many comments
A comment has one user
I'm trying to extract a name-string list of users who commented on a ticket, but with no success.
In my controller, I'm using the following code to extract the list of commenters.
Ticket::where('id', $comment->post_id)->commenters
However, I'm getting the error:
Property [commenters] does not exist on the Eloquent builder instance.

Answer 1

You're missing a closure. This query is unfinished:
Ticket::where('id', $comment->post_id)
And an unfinished query is an instance of the Builder class, not a Ticket instance, or Collection of Ticket instances as you're expecting.
If you're expecting a single Ticket instance, then you'd use ->first():
$ticket = Ticket::where('id', $comment->post_id)->with(['commenters'])->first();
$commenters = $ticket->commenters;
If you're expecting multiple Ticket instances, then you'd use ->get():
$tickets = Ticket::where('id', $comment->post_id)->with(['commenters'])->get();
foreach($tickets AS $ticket){
$commenters = $ticket->commenters;
}
Note: ->with(['commenters']) is used to speed up the loading of ->commenters; if you omit it, then a new query is run when you try to access $ticket->commenters.