I know that I can run this query and get the results that I want but I'm still learning Laravel and would like to do this using Eloquent instead of raw SQL. I've tried a number of ways to get this to work but I'm having no luck. I'm trying to model the following query:

SELECT collections.*, collection_token.*, games.*, sets.*, tokens.* FROM communal_haven.collections
INNER JOIN collection_token ON collection_token.collection_id = collections.id
INNER JOIN tokens ON tokens.id = collection_token.token_id
INNER JOIN sets ON sets.id = tokens.set_id
INNER JOIN games ON games.id = collections.game_id AND games.status != 'denied'
ORDER BY collections.user_id, collections.game_id

It's pretty straight forward with the joins on the different table IDs with the only qualifier being the games.status column. On each of the models (collections, collection_token, games, sets, tokens), I do have the various relationship methods and they work just fine. However, all of that gets pulled in using lazy loading and given the amount of information I need, it creates a lot of overhead when a single query like the above can get the data I need/want in one go.

Is there something I can use to set up that all those inner joins? I couldn't get it to work...

N.b., the above query is pulling in more information (via the .*) than I actually need. I just had it in there so I could verify the data as I was building it out.

thnx,
Christoph