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I'm just wondering if it's possible to add additional methods to an Eloquent model that can be accessed via the facade?
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I tried it and it didn't work; I had to make the method static.
@davestewart
As said in the documentation a facade must extend Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade and implement getFacadeAccessor. The facade access the Service Container returned by getFacadeAccessor (actually the function must return the name).
In conclusion I think you must register a Service Container which returns an instance of the model and then create a Facade on that. Static method sounds more practical.
Actually I've checked the base Illuminate class Model and all the common methods there are actually static, so I was labouring under a misapprehension that all the :: methods were accessed via a facade.
Good to know!
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