laravel - Polymorphic Eloquent relationships with namespaces

Question

I've tried to implement polymorphic relationships. They work perfectly... However, I'm trying to reduce my database size as much as possible so... I've this

Table action
|  id  |  realatable_type  |  relatable_id
|  1   |  LionPeople      |  65
|  2   |  LionCompany     |  13

Obviously I've this

<?php namespace Lion;

class Company extends Eloquent { ... }
class People extends Eloquent { ... }

Is there any way to store only "People" or "Company" assuming that the namespace is always going to be "Lion"?

Answer 1

Since Laravel 4.1, inside your model (in this case Company and People) you can set the protected property $morphClass to whatever you want.

<?php namespace Lion;

class Company extends Eloquent { 

    protected $morphClass = 'Company';
}

Now in your table you can store the type without the namespace:

 |  id  |  realatable_type  |  relatable_id
 |  2   |  Company          |  13