Laravel: Returning the namespaced owner of a polymorphic relation

Question

I can find a number of discussions regarding this but no clear solution. Here are two links, although I will cover everything in my own question here.

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Answer 1

I like @JarekTkaczyks solution and I would suggest you use that one. But, for the sake of completeness, there's is another way Taylor briefly mentions on github

You can add a attribute accessor for the imageable_type attribute and then use a "classmap" array to look up the right class.

class Photo extends Eloquent {

    protected $types = [
        'order' => 'App\Store\Order',
        'staff' => 'App\Users\Staff'
    ];

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

    public function getImageableTypeAttribute($type) {
        // transform to lower case
        $type = strtolower($type);

        // to make sure this returns value from the array
        return array_get($this->types, $type, $type);

        // which is always safe, because new 'class'
        // will work just the same as new 'Class'
    }

}

Note that you still will need the morphClass attribute for querying from the other side of the relation though.