Eloquent
Architecture
Is there any benefit to the following 2 pieces of code in a model class? Which one should I adopt and why?
public function emails()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Email');
}
vs
public function emails()
{
return $this->hasMany(App\Email::class);
}
Last updated
3 years ago.
Solution
This works since PHP5.5 it returnes a String with the class name and its fully qualified namespace. The only benefit I know is thats it's better for Typehinting in the IDE.
There are more benefits than just Typehinting:
- You can easily inspect the class header and identify the class relationships it uses.
- You get to know more easily, where a specific class is used, when you search for "Find usages in File" in your IDE.
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