Laravel default orderBy

Question

Is there a clean way to enable certain models to be ordered by a property by default? It could work by extending the laravel\'s QueryBuilder, but to do so,

Answer 1

you should use eloquent global scope that can apply to all queries(also you can set parameter for it).

And for relations you can use this useful trick:

class Category extends Model {
    public function posts(){
        return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Post')->orderBy('title');
    }
}

this will add order by to all posts when we get them from a category. If you add an order by to your query, this default order by will cancel!

Answer 2

Yes you would need to extend Eloquent to always do this as standard for any query. What's wrong with adding an order by statement to the query when you need it ordered? That is the cleanest way, ie, you dont need to 'unhack' Eloquent to get results by natural order.

MyModel::orderBy('created_at', 'asc')->get();

Other than that the closest thing to what you want would be to create query scopes in your models.

public function scopeOrdered($query)
{
    return $query->orderBy('created_at', 'asc')->get();
}

You can then call ordered as a method instead of get to retrieve your ordered results.

$data = MyModel::where('foo', '=', 'bar')->ordered();

If you wanted this across different models you could create a base class and just extend it to the models you want to have access to this scoped method.