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PHP Laravel cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable not working because "instanceof SluggableInterface" always returns false

I'm trying to use the Laravel's sluggable package found here: https://github.com/cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable

When I save a model (ex. Product), the sluggable feature doesn't sluggify my model. This is on a brand new install of Laravel as of today.

I can see that the event listener fires (line 43 in SluggableServiceProvider.php), but it seems as though the if ($model instanceof SluggableInterface) statement never returns true and never sluggifies my model. Could this be a name spacing issue? Any other ideas?

Here is my Product model:

<?php
use Cviebrock\EloquentSluggable\SluggableInterface;
use Cviebrock\EloquentSluggable\SluggableTrait;

class Product extends Eloquent {

  use SluggableTrait;
  protected $sluggable = array(
      'build_from' => 'title',
      'save_to'    => 'slug',
  );
}

I can, of course, get the sluggify method to run manually by doing something like this:

$product->sluggify();

But I would like to adhere to best practices and try to get the sluggify code to work automatically when the model save event is triggered.

Solution

  • add implements SluggableInterface to your Product class

    class Product extends Eloquent implements SluggableInterface 
{

}

    demo code on github:

    https://github.com/cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable#updating-your-eloquent-models