Automatically add where clause to every queries on a model

Question

Currently I am to do Model::where('status', 1) to filter off inactive models before adding any other subqueries to it. I find myself doing this all the time and Its quite stressful as sometimes I could forget to add that part. I wish to have something that will automatically add the where clause anytime I run a query on the model. Something that works like the typical Laravel SoftDeletes that adds the WHERE deleted_at IS NULL clause automatically to all queries.

Example:

Instead of writing Model::where('status', 1)->first(), I could just write Model::first() and this will be automatically transformed to Model::where('status', 1)->first().

How do I achieve this please ?

Answer 1

What you're looking are the Query Scopes