How to get the type of the event PostWillBeSaved?

aley

I use the PostWillBeSaved event to listen for new discussions and changes to posts. How to differentiate the type of the event within the event? Somethink like:

$events->listen(PostWillBeSaved::class, function (PostWillBeSaved $event) {
    // $event->type might be 'new', 'edit', 'hide', 'delete' etc.
});

Basically when the post gets hidden or deleted, I simply want to ignore these action. What I'm basically looking for is, when ever there is a new post or the content gets changed.

clarkwinkelmann

First it looks like PostWillBeSaved is not sent when deleting. One less to worry about.

Then to know if the post is being hidden or restored, just check whether array_has($event->data, 'attributes.isHidden') (you can even check the value to make the difference between the two).

Then to know if the post is new, check whether $event->post->exists is false.

Hope this helps ?

aley

Thanks mate. That helps a lot.

Is there a way to check whether the post is a discussion or a comment related to a discussion?

For a new discussion one can check

$isDiscussion = ($event->data['type'] == 'discussions');

but how to check when the discussion post gets edited. Is there some parent field which I could check for?

clarkwinkelmann

aley You should be able to do something like $post->discussion->startPost->id === $post->id

Keep in mind posts never "are" discussions. There's just a first post. The first post can change if you delete the previous first one. There could be no posts anymore in a discussion if you delete them all ?