Hi Mat,

Yeah there is. You can order the books when retrieving them from the DB or order the Laravel collection after it is retrieved. I recommend you to order them when retrieving them from the database. To do so use orderBy.

@foreach ($author->books()->orderBy('title')->get() as $book)

Note that

$author->books;

is the same as

$author->books()->get();

when invoked the first time. The explicit get will query the database every time, while the magic property stores the value of the books and makes a single query if used multiple times.

I think you can make the books ordered by default by adding the orderBy in the books() method.

return $this->hasMany('App\Books', 'id_author', 'id')->orderBy('title');

Also make sure that when you get the authors from the database you get them together with the books.

$authors = Author::with('books')-...>get();

to avoid numerous queries.