laravel - Where NOT in pivot table

Question

In Laravel we can setup relationships like so:

class User {
    public function items()
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany('Item');
    }
}

Allowing us to to get all items in a pivot table for a user:

Auth::user()->items();

However what if I want to get the opposite of that. And get all items the user DOES NOT have yet. So NOT in the pivot table.

Is there a simple way to do this?

Answer 1

Looking at the source code of the class IlluminateDatabaseEloquentBuilder, we have two methods in Laravel that does this: whereDoesntHave (opposite of whereHas) and doesntHave (opposite of has)

// SELECT * FROM users WHERE ((SELECT count(*) FROM roles WHERE user.role_id = roles.id AND id = 1) < 1)  AND ...

    User::whereDoesntHave('Role', function ($query) use($id) {
          $query->whereId($id);
    })
    ->get();

this works correctly for me!

For simple "Where not exists relationship", use this:

User::doesntHave('Role')->get();

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