store a model in your config in your app someplace. Let's just call this package.php over in config and let's define out a model in here that we can chop and change. So think of something where the model might be different depending on who is using your package. So I'm going to go ahead and say model in here and I'm going to provide the full namespace to the post just

inside of here and make sure we pull that in. So with this what we can actually do is we could say config package model. Let's just die dump on that to make sure we're getting that back properly. You can see we get app models and post and ideally what we'd want to do is then start to access methods on this using Eloquent. Now what we can't do is something like this where

published true and then get. That's just not going to work. So let's just assign this to a variable die dump on posts just down here and let's come over and see what happens. There we go. Cannot call where published on a string. Of course that makes sense. We can't call methods on strings but what we can do is use the static query method to resolve this. So let's go ahead

and say query where published. So now even if you have a string within your config that dictates which model you're using in this example for a particular package you're building you can just use query on here and then start to chain on anything that you need. You can see here sure enough we get one result back like we've seen before.