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Can you list the existing types of relationships between models in Laravel?

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In Laravel, the following are the main types of relationships between models:

  • One to One — one record in a table is related to one record in another.
  • One to Many — one record is related to many records in another table.
  • Many to Many — many records are related to many records in another table through a pivot table.
  • Polymorphic Relations — allow a model to belong to more than one other model on a single association.

Example of a "One to Many" relationship:

class Post extends Model {
    public function comments() {
        return $this->hasMany(Comment::class);
    }
}

class Comment extends Model {
    public function post() {
        return $this->belongsTo(Post::class);
    }
}

These relationships make it convenient to work with data and build complex queries using Eloquent ORM.

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