Laravel & PHP Toolkit

A collection of lightweight, modern, and highly reusable PHP traits, Eloquent helpers, and utility extensions.

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A minimal and efficient collection of PHP 8.2+ traits and utilities designed to enhance Eloquent models and PHP arrays/strings. Relies on specific, lightweight Illuminate components rather than the full Laravel framework.

Features

• ⚡ Cacheable — Intuitive Eloquent instance caching API with custom TTLs and auto-generated keys.
• 📋 HasActivityLogs — Boilerplate-free Spatie Activitylog integration configured with smart defaults.
• 🔍 Searchable — Query-builder scope for full-text term searches matching prefixes.
• 🆔 HasUuid — Automatically generates secure UUIDs (v4) upon model creation.
• 🔗 HasSlug — Automatic generation of unique, collision-resistant slugs from a source field.
• 🚦 HasStatus — Status state management, validation checks, and query scoping.
• ⚙️ HasFilters — Flexible pipeline helper to filter query builders via closures or dedicated classes.
• 🧰 StrHelper & ArrHelper — Context-rich utilities to manipulate strings and arrays cleanly.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Cacheable
• HasActivityLogs
• Searchable
• HasUuid
• HasSlug
• HasStatus
• HasFilters
• StrHelper
• ArrHelper
• Requirements
• License

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Installation

Require via Composer:

composer require zerexei/php-toolkit

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Cacheable

Add instance caching to any Eloquent model. It dynamically generates cache keys based on model type, primary key, and the updated_at timestamp.

use Zerexei\PHPToolkit\Traits\Cacheable;

class Post extends Model
{
    use Cacheable;
}

// Check cache, retrieve, or store values
$post = Post::find(1);

if ($post->hasCache()) {
    $cachedData = $post->getCache();
}

$post->putCache('custom-serialized-data', 3600);
$post->forgetCache();

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HasActivityLogs

Integrate Spatie's Laravel Activitylog with smart out-of-the-box settings (auto-headline model names, excludes sensitive fields, and logs request IPs).

use Zerexei\PHPToolkit\Traits\HasActivityLogs;

class User extends Model
{
    use HasActivityLogs;
}

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Searchable

Enable simple, multi-column search on your models using SQL LIKE conditions.

use Zerexei\PHPToolkit\Traits\Searchable;

class Product extends Model
{
    use Searchable;
}

// Query products matching "macbook pro" across title and description
$products = Product::search(['title', 'description'], 'macbook pro')->get();

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HasUuid

Instruct Eloquent to auto-generate and manage UUID keys (UUIDv4) on model creation.

use Zerexei\PHPToolkit\Traits\HasUuid;

class Invoice extends Model
{
    use HasUuid;
}

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HasSlug

Automatically generate slugs on model saving. Handles slug collisions automatically by appending increments (e.g. my-slug-1).

use Zerexei\PHPToolkit\Traits\HasSlug;

class Article extends Model
{
    use HasSlug;

    // Optional overrides:
    public function slugSource(): string
    {
        return 'title'; // Source column (Default: 'title')
    }

    public function slugDestination(): string
    {
        return 'slug'; // Destination column (Default: 'slug')
    }
}

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HasStatus

Validate, mutate, and scope models by their status.

use Zerexei\PHPToolkit\Traits\HasStatus;

class Project extends Model
{
    use HasStatus;

    public function getStatuses(): array
    {
        return ['draft', 'active', 'completed', 'archived'];
    }
}

// Usage
$project->setStatus('active'); // Throws InvalidArgumentException if invalid
$project->isStatus('completed'); // false

// Scope queries
$activeProjects = Project::ofStatus('active')->get();
$filteredProjects = Project::ofStatus(['active', 'completed'])->get();

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HasFilters

Apply request-driven filters or query builder callbacks cleanly.

use Zerexei\PHPToolkit\Traits\HasFilters;

class Order extends Model
{
    use HasFilters;
}

// 1. Using a closure
$orders = Order::filter(function ($query) {
    $query->where('amount', '>', 100);
})->get();

// 2. Using a dedicated Filter Class (must implement an `apply` method)
$orders = Order::filter(\App\Filters\OrderFilter::class)->get();

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StrHelper

Common string manipulations.

use Zerexei\PHPToolkit\Utilities\StrHelper;

// Get initials
StrHelper::initials('Taylor Otwell'); // "TO"

// Estimate reading time in minutes
StrHelper::readingTime($longText, $wordsPerMinute = 200); // 4

// Truncate to exact length while preserving word boundaries
StrHelper::truncateWords($text, $limit = 80);

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ArrHelper

Manipulate PHP arrays effortlessly.

use Zerexei\PHPToolkit\Utilities\ArrHelper;

// Group items by a key path (supports arrays & objects)
ArrHelper::groupByKey($users, 'role_id');

// Remove all null values recursively from nested arrays
ArrHelper::filterNullRecursive($dirtyArray);

// Safely rename associative array keys
ArrHelper::renameKeys($data, ['user_id' => 'id', 'user_email' => 'email']);

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Requirements

• PHP: 8.2 or higher
• Laravel Components (illuminate/database, illuminate/support): ^12.0
• Composer

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License

This project is open-source software licensed under the MIT License.