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<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletingTrait;
class TopicFollow extends Eloquent 
{
	use SoftDeletingTrait;
	protected $table = 'topic_follow';
	protected $primaryKey = 'topic_follow_id';

	public Static function getTopicFollowsByUserID($userID,$page,$no_of_records)
    	{
        try
        {
	               if(intval($userID) > 0 )
	           		{  
	           		  
	                if(isset($page) && isset($no_of_records))
	                
	                  $topics = DB::table("topic_follow as tf")
	                            ->leftJoin("topics as t", "t.topic_id", "=", "tf.topic_id")
	                            ->leftJoin("categories as c", "c.category_id", "=", "t.category_id")
	                            ->whereNull("tf.deleted_at")
	                            ->where("tf.user_id", "=", $userID)
	                            ->orderBy("t.updated_at", "desc")
	                            ->skip(($page - 1)*$no_of_records)
	                            ->take($no_of_records)                                                        
	                            ->select("t.topic_id","t.title","c.category_id as category_id", "c.color_code","c.forum_is_visible as category_is_visible" ,"c.name as category_name", "t.user_id as created_by_id", "t.user_name as created_by_name")
	                            ->get();                    
	                else
	                   $topics = DB::table("topic_follow as tf")
	                            ->leftJoin("topics as t", "t.topic_id", "=", "tf.topic_id")
	                            ->leftJoin("categories as c", "c.category_id", "=", "t.category_id")
	                            ->whereNull("tf.deleted_at")
	                            ->where("tf.user_id", "=", $userID)
	                            ->orderBy("t.updated_at", "desc")
	                            ->select("t.topic_id","t.title","c.category_id as category_id", "c.color_code","c.forum_is_visible as category_is_visible" ,"c.name as category_name", "t.user_id as created_by_id", "t.user_name as created_by_name")
	                            ->get();
	                  }
          
           
           					return $topics;

        } catch (Exception $e)
        {
            Log::error('Models: Reply  -> getRepliesByTopicID '.$e->getMessage());
            return [];
        }
    }
}