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oldtimeguitarguy/eloquent-single-table-inheritance
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Simple single table inheritance for eloquent models in Laravel & Lumen

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Eloquent Single Table Inheritance
=================================

[](#eloquent-single-table-inheritance)

This is a very simple implementation of single table inheritance for Eloquent (Laravel & Lumen).

There are no attribute restrictions or anything that could be considered robust. There are other libraries that do those things quite well.

This simply allows you to have a single table that, when fetched, is thrown into an Eloquent model of your choice, defined by a column in that table (typically "type", which is the default keyed type column. You can customize this).

For instance, imagine you have the following table (called `people`):

idnamesex1Fredboy2Jillgirl... and imagine you had the following classes:

```
class Person extends StiParent
{
    protected $table = 'people';
    protected static $stiKey = 'sex';
    protected static $stiChildren = [
        'boy' => Boy::class,
        'girl' => Girl::class,
    ];
}

class Boy extends Person
{
    //
}

class Girl extends Person
{
    //
}
```

When you fetch all people, you will get a mix of boys & girls in the collection.

When you fetch just boys, you will get just boys.

When you fetch just girls, you will get just girls.

UNFORTUNATELY
-------------

[](#unfortunately)

1. You cannot make your `Person` class abstract.
2. You must specify the table on the parent
3. When creating a `hasMany` association, you must make sure you specify the foreign key. Otherwise, it will try to automatically generate one from the class name.

###  Health Score

33

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LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity21

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

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###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~5 days

Total

9

Last Release

3557d ago

### Community

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Top Contributors

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eloquentlaravellumensingle-table

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