如何在Laravel雄辩的类中添加自定义方法

Question

I want to add some specific custom method to Laravel Eloquent so that I can access those method from any Modal.

Like

class Bar extends Eloquent
{
    public $table = 'mytable';

    public function foo($log_table)
    {
        self::checkAndCreateLogTable($log_table); //<-- this 'll be a custom function defined in Eloquent
    }

}

I have one solution that is to create a base class and extend Eloquent and then extend the new class from all the modal like this

class Foo extends Eloquent
{

    public function checkAndCreateLogTable($log_table)
    {
        //get the table name from the modal and do some stuff
    }

}

class Bar extends Foo
{

}

Is there any better solution then this?

Answer 1

If the method checkAndCreateLogTable will be used in literally every model you create (also in future), it would be easier to create a class that extends the Eloquent class.

If not you should create a trait . Eg:

trait HasLogTable
{
    public function checkAndCreateLogTable ($log_table)
    {
        // Get the table name from the model and do some stuff
    }
}

class Bar extend Eloquent
{
    use HasLogTable;
}

However if this is only a one time task at the beginning of you application installation I would create a console command (or migration seen the name of the method?).