Laravel Cascade Updates

v1.0.0

This is basically a fork of https://github.com/michaeldyrynda/laravel-cascade-soft-deletes by Michael Dyrynda. I had the idea to make this for sometime, and after planning out how I wanted it to work I searched around to see what was similar. Michael's library was already well established and worked very similarly to what I had in mind, so in the interest of getting it done quickly over the holidays and sticking to a known format, I just based mine on his work.

This Trait allows you to update all lower entities in a hierarchy when a top level record is changed. For example, if I have Authors with multiple Posts, and each Post has multiple Comments, I can set a is_active flag to false on an Author and have all of their Posts and the related Comments deactivate at the same time.

Code Samples

<?php

namespace App;

use App\Comment;
use jrmadsen67\Database\Support\CascadeUpdates;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Post extends Model
{
    use CascadeUpdates;

    protected $cascadeUpdates = ['comments' => ['is_active']];
    
    public function comments()
    {
        return $this->hasMany(Comment::class);
    }
}

Now you can update an App\Post record, and any associated App\Comment records will be update. If the App\Comment record implements the CascadeUpdates trait as well, it's children will also be updated and so on.

IMPORTANT: This will only update the same field on all entities. In other words, it is not possible to tell it to update myField whenever the is_active is changed.

$post = App\Post::find($postId)
$post->update(['is_active' => 0]); // Updates the post, which will also trigger the update() method on any comments and their children.

Installation

This trait is installed via Composer. To install, simply add to your composer.json file:

$ composer require jrmadsen67/laravel-cascade-updates

Support

If you are having general issues with this package, feel free to contact me on Twitter.

If you believe you have found an issue, please report it using the GitHub issue tracker, or better yet, fork the repository and submit a pull request.

If you're using this package, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!