Laravel Multi Morph

Allows to use multiple MorphOne/MorphMany relationships with same model

Problem

When adding multiple morph relationships to the same models, Laravel can't tell the difference between them. In the table related to MyFile we will have

When a model have multiple morph relationships with the same model, this cause a problem when fetching information on those relationships. Laravel only store the information on which model type (here User) the related model belongs to. As so, when fetching the profilePicture or resume relations, we get the same result with both files (assuming they exists)

class User extends Model
{
    public function profilePicture()
    {
        return $this->morphOne(MyFile::class, 'resource');
    }
    
    public function resume()
    {
        return $this->morphOne(MyFile::class, 'resource');
    }
}

class MyFile extends Model
{
    public function resource()
    {
        return $this->morphTo();
    }
}

Solution

laravel-morph-multiple gives access to two more relationships morphOneRelationship and morphManyRelationship which will add the relation specific information in an additional column on the model with morphToRelationship

How to use

You need to add a column to the morphedTo Model to store the relationship name it was stored for.

Migration

Here is an example migration for the morphedTo Model.

Schema::table('files', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->string('resource_relationship')->after('resource_type')->nullable();
});

Replace methods within trait

We need to import the trait HasMorphByRelationships and use it on both side of the relation (morphOneMany and morphTo). You need to replace the existing relations with the news one from the trait

Original	Replace by
morphOne	morphOneRelationship
morphMany	morphManyRelationship
morphTo	morphToRelationship

Code example

use PillarScience\LaravelMultiMorph\Eloquent\Concerns\HasMorphByRelationships;

/**
 * refered as MorphedOneMany Model
 */
class User extends Model
{
    use HasMorphByRelationships;

    public function profilePicture()
    {
        return $this->morphOneRelationship(MyFile::class, 'resource');
    }
    
    public function resume()
    {
        return $this->morphOneRelationship(MyFile::class, 'resource');
    }
}

use PillarScience\LaravelMultiMorph\Eloquent\Concerns\HasMorphByRelationships;

/**
 * refered as MorphedTo Model
 */
class MyFile extends Model
{
    use HasMorphByRelationships;

    public function resource()
    {
        return $this->morphTo();
    }
}

Associating a model

// $user is a User model

$file = new MyFile();
$file->resource()->associate($user, 'resume');