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efst
posted 8 years ago
Database Architecture
Last updated 10 months ago.
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allmyitjason
replied 8 years ago
Solution

The metable_type field is used with polymorphic relations, where the Eloquent class name is stored along with the key.

Check out http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#polymorphic-relations for more.

This enables the link back from the meta table to the linked object, which could be different objects, say Post or Comment, or Category.

Last updated 10 months ago.
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efst
replied 8 years ago

Thanks @allmyitjason, that seems a great help. I would like to ask whether the above approach should be used in my case - where I would have artists as user and artists can have bio, many audios, videos, images and other fields.

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