Yeah, relationships are insanity easy with Laravel. Take a look at the docs: http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/eloquent#relationships

If you keep scrolling down, after eager loading, you will learn how to query and insert data for related models.

Once set up, you can pull out related data really easy. It's one of Laravels sling points.

Hope it helps.

ok, I now can save these relationship.

But how can I set the value for $table->integer('value') which I also need in this table?

Another thing maybe to look into is perhaps using repositories? That way you can make a meta object that on the frontend is simply accessing both tables but as if they were in a single table

Sounds like a good idea, but I actually solved it like this:

$user->roles()->attach(1, array('expires' => $expires));