A Laravel model abstraction for models whose relationships or dynamic attributes should be current-user-aware. A little better than using global scope (i.e. `\Auth::user();`) but not much better.

CurrentUserAwareModel.php

<?php

namespace App\Support;

use App\User;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

abstract class CurrentUserAwareModel extends Model
{
    /**
     * @var \App\User
     */
    protected static $currentUser = null;

    /**
     * Gets the current user that the model is aware of.
     *
     * @return \App\User|null
     */
    protected static function getCurrentUser()
    {
        return static::$currentUser;
    }
    
    /**
     * Make the model aware of the current user.
     *
     * @param \App\User $user
     */
    protected static function setCurrentUser(User $user)
    {
        static::$currentUser = $user;
    }

    /**
     * Make the model forget the current user.
     */
    protected static function forgetCurrentUser()
    {
        static::$currentUser = null;
    }
}