Laravel: customize or extend notifications - database model

Question

IMHO, the current Database channel for saving notifications in Laravel is really bad design:

• You can\'t use foreign key cascades on items for cleaning up noti

Answer 1

I solved a similar problem by customizing notification class:

create the class for this action:

artisan make:notification NewQuestion

inside it:

public function __construct($user,$question)
    {
        $this->user=$user;
        $this->question=$question;
    }


...

    public function toDatabase($notifiable){
        $data=[
            'question'=>$this->(array)$this->question->getAttributes(),
            'user'=>$this->(array)$this->user->getAttributes()
        ];

        return $data;
    }

then you can access proper data in view or controller like this:

@if($notification->type=='App\Notifications\UserRegistered')
New question from {{$notification->data['user']['name']}}
@endif