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This allows you to decouple your eloquent models from one another, by defining relations dynamically at run-time.

- Note that this package is NOT needed in laravel 7.x or above.

Compatibility :

Laravel version 5.5 and above including version 6

▶️ A problem which stops true modularity :

Let's face it, imagine you have a modular blog application.

Then, you want to add a commenting feature to it, so that users can comment on your articles.

In a modular structure, you have 2 modules (user module and blog module) and you will add a new module for comments

▶️ let's analyze dependencies and couplings :

Here the blog module "knows" and "depends" upon the user module.

But the user module should not know or care about the blog module. The blog is a plug-in on the top of the user module.

Now we want to add a comment module, on the top of user and blog module.

▶️ The Right way :

In a truely modular system when you add the comments, you should NOT go and touch the code within the users or blog module. (Remember the open-closed principle in SOLID ?!)

Imagine you are in a team and each member is working on a seperate module.

Blog module is not yours. your team mate is responsible for it and is allowed to code on it.

But when you want to start to define the eloquent relations between Comment and User and Article models, you immediately realize that you have to put code on the eloquent models of other modules to define the inverse of the relationships. Crap !

Look How everything is pointing inward.

If you look at the User folder you will have absolutely no footprint of Comment or Article.

We have to touch the code of both Blog and User module when add a new comment module.

For example : You have to open User.php and define the

public function comments() {
    return $this->hasMany(Comment::class); 
}

and this is a no no, because it makes an arrow from inside to outside.

So what to do ?!

How can Comment be introduced to the system without modifying the other modules ?! (@_@)

▶️ Install: (the most painful step)

composer require imanghafoori/eloquent-relativity   (and take a coffee...)

Now the installtion finished, you first have to make your models "relative" !!!

By using the Imanghafoori\Relativity\DynamicRelations traits on your eloquent models.

So the User, Article, Comment will have to have this trait one them.

Now comes the sweet part :

within the CommentsServiceProvider.php

class CommentsServiceProvider 
{
    public function register () {
        
        User::has_many('comments', Comment::class);     // instead of defining method on the User class.
        Article::has_many('comments',  Comment::class);
        
        Comment::belongs_to('author', User::class);       // inverse of relations
        Comment::belongs_to('article',  Article::class);
    }

}

Now you can do these queries :

User::find(1)->comments;
or 
User::find(1)->comments()->count();

So instead of going to User model and define a method there...

public function comments() {
    return $this->hasMany(Comment::class); 
}

You have defined the method remotely from your new module at run-time:

User::has_many('comments', Comment::class);

Here is a list of supported relations :

has_many
has_one
belongs_to
belongs_to_many
morph_to_many
morph_many
morph_one
morph_to
morphed_by_many
has_many_through

They accept the same paramters as the eloquent equivalent counter part. except the first argument should be relation name.

▶️ Extra features :

sometimes you need to call extra methods on the relations.

User::has_many('comments', Comment::class)->orderBy('id', 'asc');

All the methods are available to you.

Enforce eager-loading

On reqular eloquent models you may define the

User extends Model {
    protected $with = ['comments'];
}

instead you can :

User::forceEagerLoading('comments');

remember this should be in the boot method of your Service Provider not the register method.

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