2 years ago

Laravel Model Finder is a simple trait that makes building your own custom Laravel Model Searches a lot easier and safer. It ensures that your search criteria match one, and only one, result in the table being searched, allowing you to comfortably type-hint your methods by ensuring that the result of a query will never be null or a Collection, but always an instance of the specific Model you're querying. It does this by searching for a row that uniquely contains the data you're looking for in one of the named columns. That's the selling point of this package; it will only return a result if that result is the only result for your query.

You can, of course, define your own findSole method that overwrites the one defined in the trait, but this is usually not necessary.