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Get commentable class attributes using Baum in Laravel

I am using Laravel Commentable that uses Baum

Post Model

class Post extends Model
{
    use Commentable;
....

My user model name is User

Comment table structure:

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The user_id stores the user id of the user who commented, commentable_id stores the post id of the post where the comment was placed. The Comments are working as expected. I am able to insert comments, delete comments.

To display the comments:

$comments = Comment::orderBy('id', 'desc')->get();

@foreach($comments as $comment)
    {{ $comment->user->name }} : {{ $comment->body }}
@endforeach

This gives me the name and the comment by the user in the view.

Question: How to get the post model attributes from a comment?

{{ $comment->post->slug }} <-this doesn't works

Solution

  • Per the code from this package, you have to use the commentable relation. However, there is no way to be sure that this will be a Post model, this can be any model that is commentable.

    An example that checks if the commentable is actualy a post object and shows the slug if so:

    @if ($comment->commentable_type === \App\Post::class)
    {{ $comment->commentable->slug }} 
@endif