Get current from a draft?

[CNSam]

Hil folks,

Not sure if im losing the plot here but ultimately I have an authors model of which I've assigned and setup the HasDrafts trait.

What I want to know or figure out is how I can then get from a list of "only draft" records, the current, live/published record?

Secondly, to save me having to open a seperate discussion, how do relationships work.

I was hoping that if I created a draft, the relationships would clone (and add any new relationships) to that draft, is that not the case? So if I edited a record of an author, and we linked them to a new category of say "sport" how would this work?

Tia!

[oddvalue]

Hey @CNSam,

You can get the published revision from a draft using the revisions relation and the published scope like this:

$draft->revisions()->published()->first();

If you wanted to do that for a collection of drafts then you could either eager load them when querying or use load on and Eloquent collection.

$draftsCollection->load(['revisions' => fn ($query) => $query->published()]);

There's a section on how relations are handled in the readme https://github.com/oddvalue/laravel-drafts?tab=readme-ov-file#relations

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks!