laravelsti

STI ::find() fails in controller but succeeds in tinker

I'm using MannikJ/laravel-sti but the following code has a different behaviour in tinker and in a controller (assuming the definitions in larevel-sti's documentation, with classes Root, Sub1 and Sub2):

Root::find(1234)

In tinker, it correctly returns an instance of Sub1. But in a controller, it returns null.

I get the correct instance in the controller if I replace the code with:

Sub1::find(1234)
Solution

  • Thanks to the maintainer (cf. issue #1), we found that the problem is that we use constructors in our objects but laravel-sti's trait also does. Constructors are a known issue in PHP with traits…