[5.x] Ability to have a custom Entry class per collection

[edalzell]

(This is from @jasonvarga below)

Create a custom entry class:

class BlogPost extends Entry
{
    public function shareToSocials() {
      //
    }
}

Use it in the collection:

title: Blog
+class: App\BlogPost

Now you can use your custom methods.

$entry = Entry::find('blog-post-1'); // App\BlogPost
$entry->shareToSocials();

But only for that collection.

$entry = Entry::find('page-1'); // Statamic\Entries\Entry
$entry->shareToSocials(); // MethodNotFoundException

[andjsch]

This looks awesome!

[jasonvarga]

Requiring a collection in Entry::make() feels a little awkward to me. I get why you did it though. But most other places where we have a make(), you would pass in the handle of the thing you're making - not a related thing.

I wonder if $entry->collection($collection) could return an instance of the entry in the new class instead?

So like...

$entry = Entry::make();     // Statamic\Entries\Entry
$entry->locale('en');       // Statamic\Entries\Entry
$entry->collection('blog'); // App\Entries\BlogPost
$entry->slug('foo');        // App\Entries\BlogPost

class Entry
{
    public function collection($collection = null)
    {
        // ...

+       $custom = $collection->class();
+
+       if ($custom && ! $this instanceof $class) {
+           return app($custom)
+               ->slug($this->slug())
+               ->date($this->date())
+               ->etc();
+       }

        return $this;
    }
}

[edalzell]

I wonder if $entry->collection($collection) could return an instance of the entry in the new class instead?

Ya I like this, would mean I could revert all the test changes too, which I like.

I'll keep hacking on this, thanks for your feedback

[duncanmcclean]

Can you provide some more details about how this works in the PR description?

[jasonvarga]

I believe the gist is...

Create a custom entry class:

class BlogPost extends Entry
{
    public function shareToSocials() {
      //
    }
}

Use it in the collection:

title: Blog
+class: App\BlogPost

Now you can use your custom methods.

$entry = Entry::find('blog-post-1'); // App\BlogPost
$entry->shareToSocials();

But only for that collection.

$entry = Entry::find('page-1'); // Statamic\Entries\Entry
$entry->shareToSocials(); // MethodNotFoundException

[ryanmitchell]

This is probably as close as I'll ever get to you letting me have a model per collection...