Eloquent

Cascading Soft Deletes with Laravel 5

Laravel Soft Cascade is a package that makes it easy to perform soft cascade deletes and restores on related models using soft deleting. Learn more about the inspiration for making the laravel-soft-delete package and how to get started.

Leverage Eloquent To Prepare Your URLs

It’s not uncommon to have tens, if not hundreds of views in a Laravel application. Something that soon gets out of hand is the various references to routes. If for whatever reason we have to make a change to either the route alias or default query string values you’ll soon find yourself doing mass string replacements across your entire application which brings the risk of breakage within many files.

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20 Laravel Eloquent Tips and Tricks

Eloquent ORM seems like a simple mechanism, but under the hood, there’s a lot of semi-hidden functions and less-known ways to achieve more with it. In this article, I will show you a few tricks.

Getting Started with Laravel Model Events

Laravel Model events allow you to tap into various points in a model’s lifecycle, and can even prevent a save or delete from happening. The Laravel model events documentation outlines how you can hook into these events with event classes, and this article aims to build upon and fill in a few additional details on setting up events and listeners.

Laravel Shareable Models Package

The Laravel Shareable Models package allows you to generate shareable links from your Eloquent models. Think dynamic routes which only exist for models that have been shared. The package author Kai Sassnowski described his use-case for the Shareable Models package as follows: My initial use case was giving certain non-admin user access to a certain …

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Optimize Laravel Eloquent Queries with Eager Loading

Learn how to optimize your related model queries in Laravel with eager loading. We will set up some example relationships and then walk through how queries change with and without eager loading. I like to get my hands directly on code and experiment with things, and I hope to illustrate how eager loading works with some examples will further help you understand how to optimize your queries.

Laravel 5.5 Pivot Casting

A new addition to Laravel 5.5 will add support for pivot table casts when inserting & updating data on an intermediate table model.

Laravel Eloquent Relationships Through Macros

A new feature just merged into Laravel and included in the v5.4.8 update is the ability to define Macros for Eloquent Relationships. To better show how this feature works here is a screenshot by Jordan Pittman who created the original pull request: Here is that same example in a copy and paste friendly version. AppServiceProvider …

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Quickly Dumping Laravel Queries

When you are building an application and utilizing Eloquent it’s very easy to hit the N+1 problem. This is where you select a model and then later use lazy loading to fetch child records. As an example pretend you are selecting a user: User::where(‘name’, ‘Eric’)->first(); Then in your view you might do something like: @foreach …

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Easily deleting old soft-deleted records with Quicksand

When building applications, there are times when you would like to allow users to remove data from their view but keep the record in the database. An example could be allowing a user to delete their account, but you want to give them the opportunity to restart it later. If all their data is completely …

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