In my controller I have:

    public function index()
        {
            $comments = Comment::paginate(10);
            return view('comments.index', compact('comments'));
        }

And in my view I use {{ $comment->id }}, {{ $comment->message }}`and so forth to get the data from the comments table.

Now I want to display the user in that comments view that posted the comment.

I have another table named comments_user that stores the user_id and comment_id so in the comments view I basically need to look up the comments ID in the comments_user table, get the user_id and lookup the name in the users table so I can display it in the comments view.

My example structure to make things easier and what I expect:

comments

    +----+---------------------+--+
    | id |       message       |  |
    +----+---------------------+--+
    |  1 | this is a test post |  |
    |  2 | commenting test     |  |
    |  3 | hello world!        |  |
    +----+---------------------+--+

users

    +----+------+
    | id | name |
    +----+------+
    |  1 | dan  |
    |  2 | bob  |
    |  3 | mike |
    +----+------+

comments_user

    +---------+------------+
    | user_id | comment_id |
    +---------+------------+
    |       3 |          1 |
    |       2 |          3 |
    |       3 |          2 |
    +---------+------------+

Expected comments view:

    +------+---------------------+
    | mike | this is a test post |
    | bob  | commenting test     |
    | dan  | hello world!        |
    +------+---------------------+

How could I call something like {{ $comment->comments_user }} to have the name appearing next to the comment (in the comments view) based on the above structure?