If you want to count the total number of a relationship that an eloquent model has in Laravel, you can make use of the "withCount" method.
So imagine you have a relation of "post" has many "likes" and you want to count the total number of likes of the post, instead of writing a separate query you can use "withCount" method.
$post = Post::withCount('likes')->first();
return view('posts.index', ['post' => $post]);And once you have return it to your views, you can access the total count using the "likes_count" property.
<div>
<h1>{{ $post->title }}</h1>
<p>Total Likes: {{ $post->likes_count }}</p>
</div>Count multiple relationships
If you want to count multiple relationships you can provide an array to the "withCount" method.
$post = Post::withCount(['comments', 'likes'])->first();
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