The short answer is yes, if I understand what you want to do then setting up your model with pivot tables is the way to go

http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent (read about the pivot table)

I don't get it I think.

I have three tables:

** Houses ** id (auto increment) propcode (unique codes as used in my country)

** Location ** id (auto increment) locationcode (unique code)

** HouseLocations ** id propcode locationcode

In my model House I have the following:

public function locations() {
	return $this->belongsToMany('Location', 'tblhouselocations', 'propcode', 'locationcode');
}

I use belongsToMany because a house got multiple locations in my pivot table tblhouselocations.

When I do a var_dump on House there is no locations returned. The array is empty. What am I doing wrong?

It should look something like this.

$a_house = $House::where('name', '=', '123');

$a_house_locations = $a_house->locations;

Is it possible that the pivot-table is not working because I do not refer to the ID-fields in the table houses and locations?

No, as long as primaryKey on the model is set (or it's default id field). If you get empty array, then it means that the relation works, but there are no rows returned for given house.

To answer your original question: yes, of course it is possible to get all the related rows.

I suggest you either:

1 create 3 models: City, Region, Country with global scopes (if you have 2 foreign keys, 1 for region, 1 for country). OR 2 normalize that thing and create separate tables for the above models.

Then you need to setup relations accordingly (depending on which way you choose) and then you can load everything like this:

$house = House::first();

// 1st case
$house->city;
$house->region;
$house->country;

// 2nd case - normalized
$house->city->region->country;