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

The closest thing I found is Eloquent query scope.

Even though it requires a minor change in my code(prefixing queries) it still gives me what I'm looking with great flexibility.

Here's an example:

Create a function within the Eloquent child class:

class Post extends Eloquent {

    public function scopeApproved($query)
    {
        return $query->where('approved', '=', 1/*true*/);
    }

}

Then simply use it like this:

$approvedPosts = Post::approved()->;

Works perfectly. No ugly repeated WHERE function calls. easy to modify. Much easier to read(approved() makes much more sense than where('approved', '=', 1) )