Laravel Eloquent event inheritance

Question

When I do this:

class Content extends Eloquent {

}

Content::saving(function($content) {
    // do something
});

class Article extends Content {

}

The 'do something' event doesn't fire when saving an Article. Is there any way that Article can inherit this event binding?

Answer 1

You can use late static binding in the parent's static boot method that laravel automatically calls:

class Content extends Eloquent
{

    public static function boot()
    {
        parent::boot();

        static::saving(function ($model) {
            // do something
        });
    }

}