Model/Database Relationship?

The only thing I can think about right now for this setup is something along the lines of this (creating a new method in the main item model, and linking all the other models together manually) really replacing the use of find() elsewhere.


public function getItem($id) {
$post = $this->find($id);

$files = new \App\Models\PostFiles();
$post->file = $files->where(['post_id'=>$id,'primary'=>'Y'])->first();

$images = new \App\Models\PostImages();
$post->image = $images->where(['post_id'=>$id,'primary'=>'Y'])->first();

$desc = new \App\Models\PostDescriptions();
$post->description = $desc->where(['post_id'=>$id,'primary'=>'Y'])->first();

return $post;
}


This way I can just call "$post->getItem(id)" and use the other tables for my relationship "$post->image->location" etc