Scopes

- [Instructor] Scopes are the ability for us … to write conditions in Eloquent … and provide us straightforward wrapper … for adding those conditionals when we retrieve records. … The soft delete logic that we just saw … in the last video is utilizing a scope. … There is a global scope or a scope applied to all … queries for the model that removes soft deleted records … and the other scope that we saw withTrash … that includes soft deleted records. … Let's look at our controller where we've done … a lot of work building up conditionals … and replace all of this with the scope. … That's the ShowRoomsController at app, Http, … Controllers, ShowRoomController.php. … We've seen this a few times here where we're controlling … if we have a certain value to limit the room types … by that passed in value. … Let's move this to the scope … so we can see how they work. … We'll open the room model at app, Room.php. … We'll add some spaces after our lines setting our … various properties and add a new function here. …