How to use laravel scope in a relationship?

@haylee.mertz 

In Laravel, you can use scopes to apply conditions to a relationship in your Eloquent models. Scopes allow you to define common query constraints that can be reused throughout your application.

To use a scope in a relationship, you need to define the scope in the related model and then use it in the relationship definition in the primary model.

For example, let's say you have a User model with a posts relationship. You want to apply a scope to only retrieve published posts. Here's how you can do it:

1. Define the scope in the Post model:

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class Post extends Model
{
    public function scopePublished($query)
    {
        return $query->where('status', 'published');
    }
}

1. Use the scope in the relationship definition in the User model:

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class User extends Model
{
    public function posts()
    {
        return $this->hasMany(Post::class)->published();
    }
}

Now, when you retrieve posts for a user using the posts relationship, only published posts will be returned.

You can also chain multiple scopes in a relationship to further refine the query. For example, if you have a scope recent defined in the Post model that retrieves posts created within the last week, you can use it like this:

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public function posts()
{
    return $this->hasMany(Post::class)->published()->recent();
}

This will retrieve only published posts that were created within the last week for the user.