Assign statuses to Eloquent models

Imagine you want to have an Eloquent model hold a status. It's easily solved by just adding a status field to that model and be done with it. But in case you need a history of status changes or need to store some extra info on why a status changed, just adding a single field won't cut it.

This package provides a HasStatuses trait that, once installed on a model, allows you to do things like this:

// set a status
$model->setStatus('pending', 'needs verification');

// set another status
$model->setStatus('accepted');

// specify a reason
$model->setStatus('rejected', 'My rejection reason');

// get the current status
$model->status(); // returns an instance of \Spatie\ModelStatus\Status

// get the previous status
$latestPendingStatus = $model->latestStatus('pending');

$latestPendingStatus->reason; // returns 'needs verification'

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require spatie/laravel-model-status

You must publish the migration with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\ModelStatus\ModelStatusServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"

Migrate the statuses table:

php artisan migrate

Optionally you can publish the config-file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\ModelStatus\ModelStatusServiceProvider" --tag="config"

This is the contents of the file which will be published at config/models-status.php

return [

    /*
     * The class name of the status model that holds all statuses.
     * 
     * The model must be or extend `Spatie\ModelStatus\Status`.
     */
    'status_model' => Spatie\ModelStatus\Status::class,

];

Usage

Add the HasStatuses trait to a model you like to use statuses on.

use Spatie\ModelStatus\HasStatuses;

class YourEloquentModel extends Model
{
    use HasStatuses;
}

Set a new status

You can set a new status like this:

$model->setStatus('status-name');

A reason for the status change can be passed as a second argument.

$model->setStatus('status-name', 'optional reason');

Retrieving statuses

You can get the current status of model:

$model->status; // returns a string with the name of the latest status

$model->status(); // returns the latest instance of `Spatie\ModelStatus\Status`

$model->latestStatus(); // equivalent to `$model->status()`

You can also get latest status of a given name:

$model->latestStatus('pending'); // returns an instance of `Spatie\ModelStatus\Status` that has the name `pending`

The following examples will return statusses of type status 1 or status 2, whichever is latest.

$lastStatus = $model->latestStatus(['status 1', 'status 2']);

// or alternatively...
$lastStatus = $model->latestStatus('status 1', 'status 2');

All associated statuses of a model can be retrieved like this:

$allStatuses = $model->statuses;

Retrieving models with a given latest state

The currentStatus scope will return models that have a status with the give name.

$allPendingModels = Model::currentStatus('pending');

Validating a status before setting it

You can add custom validation when setting a status by overwriting the isValidStatus method:

public function isValidStatus(string $name, string $description = ''): bool
{
    ...

    if (! $condition) {
        return false;
    }

    return true;
}

If isValidStatus returns false a Spatie\ModelStatus\Exceptions\InvalidStatus exception will be thrown.

Custom model and migration

You can change the model used by specifying a class name in the status_model key of the model-status config file.

Testing

This package contains integration tests that are powered by orchestral/testbench.

You can run all tests with:

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email freek@spatie.be instead of using the issue tracker.

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Credits

• Thomas Verhelst
• Freek Van der Herten
• All Contributors

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License

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