Is there a way to extend a trait in PHP?

Question

I want to use functionality of an existing trait and create my own trait on top of it only to later apply it on classes.

I want to extend Laravel SoftDeletes trait to make SaveWithHistory function, so it will create a copy of a record as a deleted record. I also want to extend it with record_made_by_user_id field.

Answer 1

Yes, there is. You just have to define new trait like this:

trait MySoftDeletes  {     use SoftDeletes {         SoftDeletes::saveWithHistory as parentSaveWithHistory;     }      public function saveWithHistory() {         $this->parentSaveWithHistory();          //your implementation     } }