(Work in progress)

Only currently actively tested with Laravel 5.4. Previous version support to come...

Contribution welcome.

Installation

Pull in the package using composer

$ composer require joshralph/quick-gen "dev-master" --dev

Include the service provider within /config/app.php

QuickGen\Providers\GeneratorServiceProvider::class,

Getting Started

You will need to run the command below to publish the stub files that ship with the package.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=stubs

To run the generator run the below command. The example resource name given below should be replaced as you need.

php artisan quick-gen:generate cars

Templates

The package ships with a standard CRUD template that you can use to generate basic CRUD functionality.

To specify which template you wish to use, add the template flag to the command.

crud (default)

This template will generate the following files for you within the standard laravel directory structure:

• Controller
• Model
• Views
  • index.blade.php
  • create.blade.php
  • edit.blade.php
  • partials/list.blade.php
  • partials/form.blade.php

Custom Templates

Of course you will likely want to create your own template files that are in keeping with your current view structure, and coding style.

To create a new template simply create a new folder within the resources/stubs/ directory. The folder name should be used when setting the --template argument.

You can then call the command below using the --template argument

php artisan quick-gen:generate cars --template=my-template

Stub Syntax

Note all stub files should end in .stub

Variables

The following variables are made available to stub files (both content and filename):

name - The name of the resource as specified in the generate command

baseNamespace - The namespace where the generated files will reside.

...and should be wrapped in the following way:

Stub Contents

namespace <<baseNamespace>>\Http\Controllers\Admin;

Filename

__name__Controller.php.stub

Filters

You may wish to transform the case and formatting of variables within stub files. These can be used both within the file contents and the filename.

Filters can be added to variables using a . delimiter.

@foreach ($<<name.camel.plural>> as $<<name.camel.singular>>)
    <tr>
        <td>{{ $<<name.camel.singular>>->name }}</td>
    </tr>
@endforeach

The following filters are available:

camel - convert the variable to camel case.

studly - convert the variable to studly case.

snake - convert the variable to snake case.

plural - convert the variable to plural.

singular - convert the variable to singular.

lower - convert the variable to lowercase.

ucwords - upper case the first letter of each word in the variable (see words).

words - convert the variable to space delimited words

Limitations

• The default template doesn't currently update routes files. These will need to be mapped manually:

Verb	Name	Method
GET	<<name.snake.plural>>.index	@index
GET	<<name.snake.plural>>.create	@create
POST	<<name.snake.plural>>.store	@store
GET	<<name.snake.plural>>.edit	@edit($id)
POST	<<name.snake.plural>>.update	@update($id)
GET	<<name.snake.plural>>.destroy	@destroy($id)