Hi,

I'm really really new to Laravel (and up-to-date frameworks in general) and still doing the basic tutorials, but I got a similar question to such relationships.

The foreign id isn't always set, but nevertheless I want to use "belongsTo". On the other side, it is throwing me errors in the view, when I don't check the value of the forein id first.

To use the above example, is it a good idea to do something like this?

class Post extends Model
{
    public function editor()
    {
        return ($this->editor_id > 0) ? $this->belongsTo(User::class, 'editor_id') : new User;
    }
}

Edit: My suggestion is by the way not working. :( As a return type an instance of a relationship class is expected...