How to eager load in Laravel, while finding a specific entry

Question

I want to eagerly load a specific user, with their User Profile. My table and class is called users and User respectively. My Profiles table and class is user_profiles and UserProfile.

This is what I'm trying but it doesn't seem to work

return User::with('user_profiles')->find(1);

Answer 1

You also need to define a relationship method in your User class. Something like:

public function profile()
{
   return $this->belongs_to('UserProfile');
}

You then reference the name of relationship method:

User::with('profile')->get()