Easy Model v1.1.3: A Hard-Earned Update with Many New Features and Improvements 💪

Easy Model v1.1.3 has just been released, packed with a bunch of new features and improvements

• Adds the setUpdatableQuery method.

• Adds the fetchBuilder method.

• Adds the setSearchableQuery method.

• Adds the ability to specify the builder type that is getting back.


• Updates the return type of the setUpdatableModel method.


• Removes the setChainableModel method.


• Removes the updateOrCreateModel and updateOrCreateRelationship methods.


• Fixes the issue of updating single model instances.


• Fixes the issue of populating the updated_at column when incrementing and decrementing values.


• Fixes the issue of toggling many columns at a bunch of records.


• Fixes the model serialization issue encountered in the toggleColumns method.


• Fixes the issue of updating an empty array of togglable columns.

Full Changelog: v1.1.2...v1.1.3

Throughout this long and challenging journey of releasing, I discovered an awesome PHP feature called Closure Binding, which enables you to expose private and protected methods concisely, eliminating the need for PHP Reflection. I leveraged this feature to utilize Laravel's addUpdatedAtColumn method, rather than building the same functionality within the package. 🚀