README

This Laravel package provides extended functions for Eloquent.

Installation

Laravel 4.2

1. Begin by installing this package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require paulvl/magicmodel.

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

   There is no support for Laravel 5.

2. Next, update Composer from the Terminal:

    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.

    'PaulVL\MagicModel\MagicModelServiceProvider'
   

4. And add a new item to the aliases array, on same app/config/app.php file.

    '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:

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

##Usage

MagicModel implements the following methods:

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:

example...

<?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:

example...

<?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.
?>