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laraDev98's avatar

How do I call a model in a custom config file ?

Hi there,

Please read this old laravel.io thread. http://forumsarchive.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=10406

// filename: app/config/settings.php

use \App\Models\Setting

$list = array();

$format = function(&$list, $keys, $val) use(&$format) {
    $keys ? $format($list[array_shift($keys)], $keys, $val) : $list = $val;
};

foreach(Setting::all() as $setting) {
    $format($list, explode('.', $setting->token), $setting->content);
}

return $list;
Usage:

echo Config::get('settings.token'); // returns value of 'content'

On further googling I found out that this was working fine on very old Laravel versions but not anymore.I want to call a model from this setting.php file in config directory by this way I can get values from database for as config values but Laravel is throwing me these errors.How do I make this work??

Fatal error: Call to a member function connection() on a non-object in C:\wamp\www\iapp\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model.php on line 3137
Call Stack
#   Time    Memory  Function    Location
1   0.0017  247544  {main}( )   ..\index.php:0
2   0.0910  2848480 Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel->handle( )    ..\index.php:58
3   0.0910  2848736 Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel->sendRequestThroughRouter( )  ..\Kernel.php:86
4   0.0917  2886304 Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel->bootstrap( ) ..\Kernel.php:110
5   0.0917  2886472 Illuminate\Foundation\Application->bootstrapWith( ) ..\Kernel.php:215
6   0.0974  2994336 Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\LoadConfiguration->bootstrap( ) ..\Application.php:194
7   0.0986  3025160 Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\LoadConfiguration->loadConfigurationFiles( )    ..\LoadConfiguration.php:38
8   0.1407  3814624 require( 'C:\wamp\www\iapp\config\settings.php' )   ..\LoadConfiguration.php:56
9   0.1407  3814696 ConfigSetting::getSettings( )   ..\settings.php:28
10  0.1494  4488840 Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::all( )  ..\settings.php:16
11  0.1496  4494520 Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->newQuery( ) ..\Model.php:646
12  0.1496  4494616 Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->newQueryWithoutScopes( )    ..\Model.php:1769
13  0.1496  4494688 Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->newBaseQueryBuilder( )  ..\Model.php:1795
14  0.1496  4494736 Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->getConnection( )    ..\Model.php:1852
15  0.1496  4494784 Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::resolveConnection( )
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okawei's avatar

My guess is it's because you're application isn't bootstrapped when loading in the config files. Try using this

    return require __DIR__.'/path_to/bootstrap/start.php';

With that being said, there might be negative repercussions to doing this before the app is bootstrapped elsewhere...

laraDev98's avatar

tried it, doesn't work but still I don't think that's a good idea.

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