Getting pivot and reltated tables column values Laravel 3

Good evening peeps, I'm playing a little bit with Laravel, and I have this situation. I have 2 models and 3 tables to display vital signs from a pacient.

Table pacient:
id
names
birthdate

Table vital_sign:
id
description
unit

table pacient_vital_sign
id
pacient_id
vital_sign_id
first_value
second_value
date_time_taken

And the 2 models:

class Pacient extends Eloquent{
        public static $timestamps = false;
        
        public function vital_signs(){
          return $this->has_many_and_belongs_to('VitalSign', 'pacient_vital_sign', 'pacient_id', 'vital_sign_id');
        }
    }

class VitalSign extends Eloquent{
        public static $timestamps = false;
        public static $table = 'vital_signs';
        public function pacients(){
          return $this->has_many_and_belongs_to('Pacient', 'pacient_vital_sign', 'vital_sign_id', 'pacient_id');
        }
    }

And for my view I'm sending the pacient whose vital signs I want to display:

$pacient = Pacient::where('active', '=', 1)->first();

So, based on the documentation I could do this to show the pivotal table data:

@foreach($pacient->vital_signs as $sv)
    <tr>
        <td>{{ $sv->pivot->date_time_taken }}</td>
        <td>{{ $sv->description }}</td>
        <td>{{ $sv->pivot->first_value }} &nbsp; {{ $sv->pivot->second_value }}</td>
    </tr>
    @endforeach

But this way, neither the date_time_taken value nor first_value or second_value is showed. Description is displayed.

Now, if I do something like this

@foreach($pacient->vital_signs()->pivot()->get() as $sv)
    <tr>
        <td>{{ $sv->date_time_taken }}</td>
        <td>{{ $sv->description }}</td>
        <td>{{ $sv->first_value }} &nbsp; {{ $sv->second_value }}</td>
    </tr>
    @endforeach

date_time_taken, first_value and secon_value are displayed but I dont know how to reverse the relationship in order to display the value for the related table column, in this case, description from vital_sign table

So I both cases, I'm missing something. Any ideas? What I'm missings?

Thanks

Solution

On the Docs:

By default only certain fields from the pivot table will be returned (the two id fields, and the timestamps). If your pivot table contains additional columns, you can fetch them too by using the with() method

So in my case, on both models:

return $this->has_many_and_belongs_to('VitalSign', 'pacient_vital_sign', 'pacient_id', 'vital_sign_id')->with('col1', 'col2', 'coln');

and this will work:

@foreach($pacient->vital_signs as $sv)
    <tr>
        <td>{{ $sv->pivot->date_time_taken }}</td>
        <td>{{ $sv->description }}</td>
        <td>{{ $sv->pivot->first_value }} &nbsp; {{ $sv->pivot->second_value }}</td>
    </tr>
@endforeach