Laravel Eloquent Settings

Laravel Eloquent Settings is a powerful package for managing model-specific settings in Laravel applications. This package provides a flexible and efficient way to define, handle, and persist settings for your Eloquent models.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require a1383n/laravel-eloquent-settings

Next, publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider=LaravelEloquentSettings\EloquentSettingsServiceProvider

This will create a configuration file at config/eloquent_settings.php and a migration at database/migeration/**_create_eloquent_settings_table.php

Run the migrations to create the necessary database table:

php artisan migrate

Usage

Implement HasSettingsInterface on your Model

First, make sure your model implements the HasSettingsInterface and uses the HasSettings trait. Implement the definedSettings method to define the settings for your model:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use LaravelEloquentSettings\Enums\SettingValueType;
use LaravelEloquentSettings\Contracts\HasSettingsInterface;
use LaravelEloquentSettings\HasSettings;

class User extends Model implements HasSettingsInterface
{
    use HasSettings;

    public function definedSettings(SettingDefinition $definition): void
    {
        $definition->define('locale')
            ->type(SettingValueType::STRING)
            ->default('fa-IR');

        $definition->define('extra')
            ->type(SettingValueType::ARRAY)
            ->nullable();
    }
}

Use Settings

Now that you've defined settings, you can interact with them through the SettingHandler:

use App\Models\User;

$user = User::findOrFail(1);
$user->getSettingValueByName('locale');
$user->setSettingValueByName('locale', 'en-US');

SettingResolver and SettingSetter

The package also provides SettingResolver and SettingSetter for handling setting resolution and updates:

use LaravelEloquentSettings\EloquentSettings;
use LaravelEloquentSettings\SettingResolver;
use LaravelEloquentSettings\SettingSetter;
use App\Models\User;

$handler = EloquentSettings::getHandler(User::find(1));

$resolver = new SettingResolver($handler);
$value = $resolver($settings->get('locale'));

$setter = new SettingSetter($handler);
$setter('extra', ['foo' => 'bar']);

Configuration

You can customize the package behavior by modifying the eloquent_settings.php configuration file. Adjust settings such as the database table name and default values according to your requirements.

Credits

This package is inspired by the need for a simple and effective way to manage model-specific settings in Laravel applications.

License

Laravel Eloquent Settings is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.