public function getRelationValue($key)
{
// If the key already exists in the relationships array, it just means the
// relationship has already been loaded, so we'll just return it out of
// here because there is no need to query within the relations twice.
if ($this->relationLoaded($key)) {
return $this->relations[$key];
}
// If the "attribute" exists as a method on the model, we will just assume
// it is a relationship and will load and return results from the query
// and hydrate the relationship's value on the "relationships" array.
if (method_exists($this, $key)) {
return $this->getRelationshipFromMethod($key);
}
}