How to replace the Laravel Builder class - php

Question

I want to replace the Laravels builder class with my own that's extending from it. I thought it would be as simple as matter of App::bind but it seems that does not work. Where should I place the binding and what is the proper way to do that in Laravel?
This is what I have tried:
my Builder:
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder as BaseBuilder;
class Builder extends BaseBuilder
{
/**
* Find a model by its primary key.
*
* #param mixed $id
* #param array $columns
* #return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model|static|null
*/
public function find($id, $columns = array('*'))
{
Event::fire('before.find', array($this));
$result = parent::find($id, $columns);
Event::fire('after.find', array($this));
return $result;
}
}
And next I tried to register the binding in bootstrap/start.php file like this :
$app->bind('Illuminate\\Database\\Eloquent\\Builder', 'MyNameSpace\\Database\\Eloquent\\Builder');
return $app;

Answer 1

Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder class is an internal class and as such it is not dependency injected into the Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model class, but kind of hard coded there.
To do what you want to do, I would extend the Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model to MyNamespace\Database\Eloquent\Model class and override newEloquentBuilder function.
public function newEloquentBuilder($query)
{
return new MyNamespace\Database\Eloquent\Builder($query);
}
Then alias MyNamespace\Database\Eloquent\Model to Eloquent at the aliases in app/config/app.php

Answer 2

Both of the answers are correct in some way. You have to decide what your goal is.
Change Eloquent Builder
For example, if you want to add a new method only for eloquent models (eg. something like scopes, but maybe a little more advanced so it’s not possible in a scope)
Create a new Class extending the Eloquent Builder, for Example CustomEloquentBuilder.
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder;
class CustomEloquentBuilder extends Builder
{
public function myMethod()
{
// some method things
}
}
Create a Custom Model and overwrite the method newEloquentBuilder
use Namespace\Of\CustomEloquentBuilder;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class CustomModel extends Model
{
public function newEloquentBuilder($query)
{
return new CustomEloquentBuilder($query);
}
}
Change Database Query Builder
For example to modify the where-clause for all database accesses
Create a new Class extending the Database Builder, for Example CustomQueryBuilder.
use Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder;
class CustomQueryBuilder extends Builder
{
public function myMethod()
{
// some method things
}
}
Create a Custom Model and overwrite the method newBaseQueryBuilder
use Namespace\Of\CustomQueryBuilder;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class CustomModel extends Model
{
protected function newBaseQueryBuilder()
{
$connection = $this->getConnection();
return new CustomQueryBuilder(
$connection, $connection->getQueryGrammar(), $connection->getPostProcessor()
);
}
}
Laravel Version: 5.5 / this code is untestet

Answer 3

The answer above doesn't exactly work for laravel > 5 so I done some digging and I found this!
https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.2/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php#L1868
use this instead!
protected function newBaseQueryBuilder()
{
$conn = $this->getConnection();
$grammar = $conn->getQueryGrammar();
return new QueryBuilder($conn, $grammar, $conn->getPostProcessor());
}