I am fairly new to Laravel Eloquent way to handle models.
I need to create a base Product class with some common properties and relations and some other classes that have some other properties not in common.
I'll try to make a quick example: all products have a "serial_number", a "ship_date" etc...
But only the Bottle and the Bulb classes have a "glass_type" feature, while the Chair class have another one.
I am doing some
abstract class Product extends Model {}
class Bottle extends Product {}
but I think this way the Product doesn't have any attached db $table, and I don't know how to handle the migrations table and the logic behind.
What is the best method to apply here?
Thank you in advance
We have partially "solved" this by including all needed fields in the product model. In addition we have introduced a Type field ("glass","Chair") and created different getter methods.
Other than this you can use the more elegant method described here, an store each type in a separate table: Extending Eloquent Models in Laravel (use different tables)
In your model (the child one that extends the base model) add the table name,
explictly for example:
class SomeChildModel extends BaseModel {
// Manually set the table name
protected $table = 'table_name';
}