paulvl/magicmodel

Eloquent's extended Model with extra features.

MagicModel

This Laravel package provides extended functions for Eloquent., _(*1)

Installation

Laravel 4.2

1. Begin by installing this package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require paulvl/magicmodel., _(*2)

   "require-dev": {
       "paulvl/magicmodel": "dev-master"
   }

   There is no support for Laravel 5., _(*3)

2. Next, update Composer from the Terminal:, _(*4)

   composer update --dev

3. Once this operation completes, add the service provider. Open app/config/app.php, and add a new item to the providers array., _(*5)

   'PaulVL\MagicModel\MagicModelServiceProvider'

4. And add a new item to the aliases array, on same app/config/app.php file., _(*6)

   'MagicModel' => 'PaulVL\MagicModel\MagicModel'

5. Finally in order to use MagicModel properly you have to extend your "Model" from MagicModel instead of Eloquent like this for example:, _(*7)

   <?php
   . . .
   class User extends MagicModel implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface {
   . . .
   
   

Usage

MagicModel implements the following methods:, _(*8)

To Verify References

MagicModel allows you to easily verify if a record is referenced by another one as a foreing key. You can use the static Model::hasReferences($id) method directly from your MagicModel's extended Model:, _(*9)

example..., _(*10)

<?php
    return dd(Model::hasReferences(1));
    //returns True if primary key "1" is referenced in any table as FK.
    //returns False if primary key "1" is NOT referenced in any table as FK.
?>

Or you can either use $object->isReferenced() method from an instanced object:, _(*11)

example..., _(*12)

<?php
    $object = Model::find(1);
    return dd($object->isReferenced());
    //returns True if the object is referenced in any table as FK.
    //returns False if the object is NOT referenced in any table as FK.
?>