What is that you want to achieve exactly?

And are you aware that this:

$categories = Category::with(['posts'=> function($query)
{
    $query->take(4);
}])->get()

is going to limit all related posts (total 4 posts will be loaded, not 4 per category)

yes, i am aware of it. what i want to do is.

get all categories and 4 posts in it.

when somewhere in the view, i get to filter to get the category with name = 'sports'

The filter you have there is correct. So what is the issue?

Can you not do $sport->posts() ?

Anyway, do a dd($sports) . It will help you get a view of all properties of the $sports object.

mcraz said:

Can you not do $sport->posts() ?

Anyway, do a dd($sports) . It will help you get a view of all properties of the $sports object.

i can't, the scenario is this, i need to filter the posts because i will display 4 posts per category in the frontpage, and the order is manually arranged.