Incidents belong to a component. Tidy and docbloc code too.

app/database/seeds/IncidentTableSeeder.php

@@ -14,22 +14,26 @@ class IncidentTableSeeder extends Seeder {
 		$defaultIncidents = [
 			[
 				"name" => "Test Incident",
-				"message" => "Something went wrong, oh noes."
+				"message" => "Something went wrong, oh noes.",
+				"component" => 1,
 			],
 			[
 				"name" => "Update",
 				"message" => "We've found the problem, so we're looking at it.",
-				"status" => 2
+				"status" => 2,
+				"component" => 1,
 			],
 			[
 				"name" => "Monitoring the fix",
 				"message" => "We're checking that our fix will first work.",
-				"status" => 3
+				"status" => 3,
+				"component" => 1,
 			],
 			[
 				"name" => "Awesome",
 				"message" => "We totally nailed the fix.",
-				"status" => 4
+				"status" => 4,
+				"component" => 2,
 			]
 		];
 

app/models/Incident.php

@@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
 <?php
 
 	class Incident extends Eloquent {
+		/**
+		 * An incident belongs to a component.
+		 * @return Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations
+		 */
+		public function parent() {
+			return $this->belongsTo('Component', 'component', 'id');
+		}
+
+		/**
+		 * Returns a human readable version of the status.
+		 * @return string
+		 */
 		public function getHumanStatusAttribute() {
 			switch ($this->status) {
 				case 1: return 'Investigating';
@@ -10,29 +22,29 @@
 			}
 		}
 
+		/**
+		 * Looks up the class name for the status.
+		 * @return string
+		 */
 		public function getColorAttribute() {
 			switch ($this->status) {
-				case 1:
+				case 1: return 'warning';
-					return 'warning';
+				case 2: return 'alert';
-				case 2:
+				case 3: return 'info';
-					return 'alert';
+				case 4: return 'success';
-				case 3:
-					return 'info';
-				case 4:
-					return 'success';
 			}
 		}
 
+		/**
+		 * Finds the icon to use for each status.
+		 * @return string
+		 */
 		public function getIconAttribute() {
 			switch ($this->status) {
-				case 1:
+				case 1: return 'glyphicon-flag';
-					return 'glyphicon-flag';
+				case 2: return 'glyphicon-warning-sign';
-				case 2:
+				case 3: return 'glyphicon-eye-open';
-					return 'glyphicon-warning-sign';
+				case 4: return 'glyphicon-ok';
-				case 3:
-					return 'glyphicon-eye-open';
-				case 4:
-					return 'glyphicon-ok';
 			}
 		}
 	}