How to listen to events from namespaced classes in Laravel 4

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Laravel 4

I'm trying to listen to events from a class in a namespace but can't work out how to set up the listener.

I have something like:

namespace My\Namespace
class Person  extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model
...

In a separate class I have tried to listen for updates with

Event::listen('My\Namespace\Person.updated', function($person)
{
    Debugbar::info(Event::firing());
});

But that never gets called. I have tried lots of different variations of upper / lower case and putting a leading \ on the namespace but nothing works

If I change the listener to

Event::listen('*.updated', function($person)
{
    Debugbar::info(Event::firing());
});

The code runs and the debug output is : eloquent.updated: My\Namespace\Person

I just need to know what name to use in place of the * to make the handler specific to the namespaced class.

Thanks.

Just checked the docs. again and have worked out that this can be done with model observers, so use Person->observe(new PersonObserver) and pass the observer into the model. That solves the problem, but would still like to know if the above is possible? — Leon
– Leon, Commented Apr 24, 2014 at 15:05
i think you listen to certain events like 'component.action' that gets called within your code with Event::fire('component.action', [...]). haven't used it yet tho. — Simon Wicki
– Simon Wicki, Commented Apr 24, 2014 at 15:27

sidneydobber · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-24 15:14:17Z

1

If you use Eloquent for saving your models to the database you might want to try:

Event::updated('yourcontroller@yourmethod');

I use this method and it's simple, clean and works great!

http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#model-events

edited Apr 24, 2014 at 15:14

answered Apr 24, 2014 at 15:09

sidneydobber

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