Obsidian-Vault/Career/Resources/Packages/Parental.md

https://github.com/tighten/parental

A Laravel package that implements Single Table Inheritance (STI) for Eloquent models. Allows extending parent models while referencing the same database table, enabling model-specific behavior without separate tables.

Key features:

• Automatic type column management to track model types
• become() method for transitioning models between types
• Relationship eager loading helpers for child models (childrenWith, loadChildren)
• Laravel Nova integration

Useful for scenarios like user roles (Admin, Guest) or order states (Pending, Shipped) where models share database structure but need distinct functionality.