Laravel Eloquent Query Builder Default Where Condition

Question

I have News model, when i query news, i want it brings news where status = 1 as default.

News::all(); // select * from news where status = 1
News::where('anotherColumn',2)->get(); // select * from news where status = 1 and where category = 2

Is this possible? What i want is so similar to soft delete feature (it gets where deleted_at is not null and if all data is wanted withTrashed function can be used).

I looked docs but i couldn't find anything helpful. Also, i tried to handle it in construct at News model but it didn't worked either.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I normally override newQuery() for this. newQuery() is the method that Eloquent use to construct a new query.

class News extends Eloquent {

    public function newQuery($excludeDeleted = true) {
        return parent::newQuery($excludeDeleted)
            ->where(status, '=', 1);
    }

}

Now your News::all() will only output your news with status = 1.