kobykorman/eloquentify

Easily transform complex custom query results into fully hydrated hierarchical Eloquent models.

v1.0.0 2025-07-04 18:36 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.0
• laravel/framework: ^9.0|^10.0|^11.0|^12.0

Requires (Dev)

• orchestra/testbench: ^9.0
• pestphp/pest: ^3.8
• pestphp/pest-plugin-laravel: ^3.2

MIT

• database
• orm
• performance
• optimization
• laravel
• eloquent

README

Eloquentify for Laravel

👎 Lazy Loading (N+1 queries)

😑 Eager Loading (R+1 queries)

😎 Greedy Loading (1 query)

Why Eloquentify?

⚡ Single Query: Replace N+1/R+1 queries with one efficient query

💯 Eloquent Models: Get real Eloquent models, not plain objects

🔗 Nested Relations: Support for complex hierarchies of any depth

✨ Clean API: Maintain Laravel's elegant syntax

Using Eloquent can be costly in terms of how many queries are fired behind the scenes when a model has many relationships. What if we could leverage the database for what it was meant for while retaining the Eloquent experience?

Eloquentify easily transforms the result of a single custom query into nested Eloquent models, so you can continue enjoying the Eloquent API and all of its benefits.

Installation

composer require kobykorman/eloquentify

Quick Start

1. Add the trait:

// App\Models\Model
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model as BaseModel;

class Model extends BaseModel
{
    use EloquentifiesQueries;
}

2. Write the query:

// App\Models\User
class User extends Model
{    
    public static function getById($id) 
    {
        // 1 custom query
        $result = DB::table('users')
        ->select('...')
        ->join('person...')
        ->join('team...')
        // ...
        ->where('id', $id)
        ->get()

3. Transform the result:

    
        // feed the result and the relations hierarchy
        // and get them all properly hydrated and nested
        return User::eloquentify($result, [
            Person::class
            Team::class,
            Role::nest(Permission::nest(
                Resource::class,
                Ability::class
            ))
            Post::nest(Comment::class)
        ])
    }
}

4. Enjoy:

// App\Controllers\UserController
$userName = User::getById(1)->person->name

Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or higher
• Laravel 9.0 or higher

Models:

• Must follow Laravel naming conventions (e.g. User, Post, UserProfile - not user, Posts, user_profile)
• Must be instantiatable without parameters (e.g. new User(), new Post() - not new User($data))
• All relation methods must exist on the model (e.g. User model must have posts() method)
  • Relation method names must match either:
    • Singular method names are assumed to be "one" (e.g. profile(), author(), category())
    • Plural method names are assumed to be "many" (e.g. posts(), comments(), tags())

Query:

• Must include all related models' primary keys and the columns for the desired attributes
• Related model columns must be snake_cased prefixed, e.g.:

  (SELECT users.id, users.name, posts.id AS post_id, posts.title AS post_title)

• Results must be provided as a Laravel Collection (DB::table()...->get())

License

This library is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.