Relationships in Laravel. How to be?

Question

Laravel

Is it possible to implement communication in the context of one model. Suppose there is a Game model and the platforms table needs to organize a many-to-many relationship, how can you place the platforms array in the model property of the same name without creating the Platforms model.

Answer 1

You can do something like this:

public function platforms() {
  return DB::table('game_platforms')
    ->join('platforms', 'platforms.id', '=', 'game_platforms.platform_id')
    ->where('game_platforms.game_id', '=', $this->id)
    ->get();
}

But in fact, you will be duplicating and cycling code from model to model wherever data from the platforms table is needed. In addition, you lose lazy loading and a bunch of useful Eloquent little things.
In short, it is possible, but is it necessary?