How to get values from pivot table in laravel?

@lindsey.homenick 

To get values from a pivot table in Laravel, you can use the withPivot method when defining the relationship in your model.

For example, if you have a many-to-many relationship between User and Role models with a pivot table role_user, and you want to get additional information from the pivot table, you can define the relationship like this:

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// User model
class User extends Model {
    public function roles() {
        return $this->belongsToMany(Role::class)->withPivot('created_at', 'updated_at');
    }
}

// Role model
class Role extends Model {
    public function users() {
        return $this->belongsToMany(User::class)->withPivot('created_at', 'updated_at');
    }
}

Now, when you access the pivot table through the relationship, you can access the additional pivot table columns like this:

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$user = User::find(1);
foreach($user->roles as $role) {
    echo $role->pivot->created_at;
    echo $role->pivot->updated_at;
}

This way, you can retrieve and use the values from the pivot table in Laravel.