Laravel get user data with profile

Question

I have user and profile models with followers/following. What I want is to get the User data with the Profile data merged when calling Profile::followers. Now I only retrieve the profile data.

So I added the user() to Profile.php so I can call Profile::followers->user()... but no result. Can someone explain how to merge the User with Profile when calling the following() function?

User.php model

public function following()
{
   return $this->belongsToMany(Profile::class);
}

public function profile()
{
    return $this->hasOne(Profile::class);
}

Profile.php model

public function followers()
{
    return $this->belongsToMany(User::class);
}

public function user()
{
    return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
}

Answer 1

I don't know if I came late but the correct way to get a user profile would be

$profile = Auth::user()->profile;

I don't know if this would help, using Auth::user() you get to fetch the current user and since you have a relationship with the profile you can call the profile() public function without the braces.

I hope this helps anyone.