Monkey-patching for eloquent models
Composer
"greabock/tentacles": "dev-master"
user-model...
<? namespace App\User\Models; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; use Greabock\Tentacles\EloquentTentacle; User extends Model { use EloquentTentacle; }
ServiceProvider
<?php namespace App\Article\Providers; use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider; use App\Article\Models\Article; use App\User\Models\User; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; class ArticleProvider extends ServiceProvider { public function register() { #.. } public function boot() { User::addExternalMethod('articles', function() { return $this->hasMany(Article::class); }); User::addExternalMethod('getFullnameAttribute', function() { return $this->first_name . '' . $this->last_name; }); } }
Now we can do this:
$user = User::with('articles')->first();
$fullname = $user->fullname;