laravel model callbacks after save, before save, etc

Question

Are there callbacks in Laravel like:

afterSave()
beforeSave()
etc

I searched but found nothing. If there are no such things - what is best

Answer 1

If you want control over the model itself, you can override the save function and put your code before or after __parent::save().

Otherwise, there is an event fired by each Eloquent model before it saves itself.

There are also two events fired when Eloquent saves a model.

"eloquent.saving: model_name" or "eloquent.saved: model_name".

http://laravel.com/docs/events#listening-to-events