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Package parental
Short Description A simple eloquent trait that allows relationships to be accessed through child models.
License MIT
Informations about the package parental
Parental
Parental is a Laravel package that brings STI (Single Table Inheritance) capabilities to Eloquent.
What is single table inheritance (STI)?
It's a fancy name for a simple concept: Extending a model (usually to add specific behavior), but referencing the same table.
Installation
Simple Usage
What problem did we just solve?
Without Parental, calling Admin::first()
would throw an error because Laravel would be looking for an admins
table. Laravel generates expected table names, as well as foreign keys and pivot table names, using the model's class name. By adding the HasParent
trait to the Admin model, Laravel will now reference the parent model's class name users
.
Accessing Child Models from Parents
What problem did we just solve?
Before, if we ran: User::first()
we would only get back User
models. By adding the HasChildren
trait and a type
column to the users
table, running User::first()
will return an instance of the child model (Admin
or Guest
in this case).
Type Aliases
If you don't want to store raw class names in the type column, you can override them using the $childTypes
property.
Now, running Admin::create()
will set the type
column in the users
table to admin
instead of App\Models\Admin
.
This feature is useful if you are working with an existing type column, or if you want to decouple application details from your database.
Custom Type Column Name
You can override the default type column by setting the $childColumn
property on the parent model.
Laravel Nova Support
If you want to use share parent Nova resources with child models, you may register the following provider at the end of the boot method of your NovaServiceProvider:
Thanks to @sschoger for the sick logo design, and @DanielCoulbourne for helping brainstorm the idea on Twenty Percent Time.
All versions of parental with dependencies
illuminate/database Version ^9.0||^10.0||^11.0
illuminate/events Version ^9.0||^10.0||^11.0