using-your-own-tag-model.md

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Using your own tag model	4

You might want to override some functionality of the Spatie\Tags\Tag or add some extra functions. It's very easy to use your own custom tag model. All you need to do is override the getTagClassName method from the HasTags trait. It should return the fully qualified class name of an eloquent model that extends Spatie\Tags\Tag and uses the same tags table.

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Spatie\Tags\HasTags;

class YourModel extends Model
{
    use HasTags;
    
    public static function getTagClassName(): string
    {
        return YourTagModel::class;
    }
}

Then you need to override the tags() method from the same trait to tell Laravel that it still needs to look for tag_id column for tags relation instead of your_tag_model_id:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\MorphToMany;

public function tags(): MorphToMany
{
    return $this
        ->morphToMany(self::getTagClassName(), 'taggable', 'taggables', null, 'tag_id')
        ->orderBy('order_column');
}