Laravel 5.6 model extends other model - php

Question

In my package I have come model with it own namespace
<?php
namespace Nosennij\LaravelCategoryMenuAndBreadcrumbs\models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Category extends Model
{
public function scopeMain($query)
{
return $query->where('parent_id', 0);
}
public function subcategories(){
return $this->hasMany(Category::class, 'parent_id');
}
public function parent(){
return $this->belongsTo(Category::class, 'parent_id');
}
}
When I install package it will be good if I do not copy this model to app folder and do not change namespace to App. It will be better to extend this model from package imporing all parent methods. I try to do it next way
1) php artisan make:model Category
2) try to extend
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Nosennij\LaravelCategoryMenuAndBreadcrumbs\models\Category as ParentCategory;
class Category extends ParentCategory
{
public function __construct(array $attributes = [])
{
parent::__construct($attributes);
parent::boot();
}
//my own new methods or methods rewriting parent methods
}
How can I do it?
So in controller I want to use App\Category; and want to have acces to scopeMain, subcategories, parent methods from package model in vendor/nosennij/laravel-catmenubread/models/Category.php
Working variant- https://github.com/n-osennij/laravel-category

Answer 1

In your package move your models directory under src and capitalize the M e.g. src/Models/Category.php.
Then change the namespace in Category to be:
namespace Nosennij\LaravelCategoryMenuAndBreadcrumbs\Models;
Then in your Category class in your app directory change it to be:
use Nosennij\LaravelCategoryMenuAndBreadcrumbs\Models\Category as ParentCategory;
class Category extends ParentCategory