Why does belongsToMany always return 1?

Question

Laravel

You need to check if the user applied for the job. But relation always returns 1. What is the problem?

public function applied($job_id)
    {
      $this->belongsToMany('App\Job', 'job_applies');
    }

And in the view, depending on this, show\hide the response button:
{{count($user->applied($job->id))}}
In applied(), for now, I just return the result for the test, but here I stalled. count() gives 1 when it should be 3.

Answer 1

First, you declared a parameter $job_idbut you don't use it anywhere.
Secondly,

// User model
public function jobs()
{
    return $this->belongsToMany('App\Job', 'job_applies');
}
public function applied($job_id)
{
    return $this->jobs()->where('job_id', $job_id)->count() > 0;
}