Laravel 4: How to apply a WHERE condition to all queries of an Eloquent class?

Question

I\'m trying to implement an \"approved\' state for a table I have, it\'s pretty straightforward, basically, if the row\'s approve column equals 1; that row should be retrieved,

Answer 1

You can use global scope for your need, docs for that are here : https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/eloquent#query-scopes

Good example is SoftDeletingScope which is applied to all queries by default on models which use SoftDeletes trait.