Ok so I have a certifications table which can have many employees or materials. Also the employees and materials can have many different certifications. The docs say I need to call $certifications->employees or $certifications->materials. Is there a way I could just call some sort of catch-all method like $certification->certifiables that returns a single collection of employees and/or materials? Not sure if I am just looking at this the wrong way.
Here is my table structure: http://laravel.io/bin/68rYD
No, you can't do that. Laravel needs to know what to instantiate. Also Eloquent Collection relies on ids, so if you had the same ids for both morphed models, they would override one another.
Thanks jarektkaczyk, I was afraid that might be the case. Is there a better L4 way to handle this particular use-case then?
It depends on what you are trying to achieve.
For example you could convert to and merge base collections in order to work on all of the items:
$certificate = Certificate::find($id);
$materials = $certificate->materials->toBase();
$employees = $certificate->employees->toBase();
$certified = $materials->merge($employees);
// then you can do whatever you need:
$certified->sortBy('created_at');
$latest = $certified->filter(function ($item) {
return $item->created_at > $someDate;
});
$groupped = $certified->groupBy('SOME_COMMON_PROPERTY');
// and so on..
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