[Request] automatic documentation of dynamic whereField functions on models about laravel-ide-helper HOT 6 CLOSED

That looks useful indeed. Will see when I have some extra time.
Of you want you can also submit a PR.

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Pushed an update, does this work for you?

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It almost does, although instead of just marking the return type as \WhateverModel it should probably be \Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder|\WhateverModel otherwise using e.g.

\WhateverModel::whereName('admin')->first() 

ends up marking first() as an undefined method.

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But doesnt eloquent already extend that class? (in the helper at least)

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For me, User::whereEmail('..') returns an User instance. User extends Eloquent (the facade) and the ide_helper.php adds the first() etc methods to Eloquent.
Did you also generate the ide helper file? And do you extend Eloquent, or Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model? Only extending Eloquent works with the helper, not the Model class directly.

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You are correct it does, but for users like (for now) myself who use packages like ardent our models extend PackageModelX which extends Eloquent, but because PackageModelX is a package model the ide-helper does not know about those, hence the chain gets broken, which is why adding \Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder fixes it for me!

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