staudenmeir/eloquent-json-relations

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Laravel Eloquent extension that adds support for JSON foreign keys in relationships like BelongsTo, HasOne, HasMany, and morph variants. It also enables many-to-many and has-many-through relationships based on JSON arrays across multiple database engines.

Use cases

• define eloquent relationships where foreign keys are stored in columns
• query hasmany relations through a array of ids in laravel
• build many-to-many relationships using arrays of objects
• use belongsTo with a foreign key inside a field
• run -based eloquent relations on mysql, postgres, sqlite, or sql server
• avoid pivot tables by storing related ids in a column

When to choose

• you use Laravel Eloquent and store foreign keys or id arrays in JSON columns
• you want relationship support without dedicated pivot tables or columns
• you need cross-database JSON relation support (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server)

When to avoid

• you don't use Laravel or Eloquent ORM
• your schema uses conventional dedicated foreign key columns
• you need JSON relations on databases outside the supported versions

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