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Eloquent-Fields Generator Package For Laravel

This package actually contains a helper function and a trait. Its basic target is to reduce time that developers spend writing Creation & Update forms markup for Eloquent Models.

It's basic idea is to use the FormGenerator trait in your model and write a tiny array with your fields' preferences. Then you can use the helper function to generate a creation or update form.

Installing.

Via composer

composer require lilessam/eloquent-fields dev-master

Then in your model use the trait Lilessam\EloquentFields\Traits\FormGenerator like the following:

<?php
namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Lilessam\EloquentFields\Traits\FormGenerator;

class Fee extends Model
{
    use FormGenerator;
}

How to use it?

By defining a static array in your model called $fields and its structure should be as following example.

public static $fields = [
    'field_name_attribute' => [ // Field name attribute should be the column name in DB as well to retreive its value in update form generation.
        'label'    => 'اسم الحقل', // Field Label.
        'input'    => 'input', // Field Type.
        'type'     => 'text'  // Field Input Type.
    ],
];

This will generate a bootstrap form-group div contains this field. Then you can generate a creation form fields in your view files like the following example:

<form class="form-horizontal" method="post">
    {!! generate_fields('App\Fee') !!}
    {!! csrf_field() !!}
    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">حفظ!</button>
</form>

And you can create an update form fields by passing a second parameter contains the object id.

<form class="form-horizontal" method="post">
    {!! generate_fields('App\Fee', 1) !!}
    {!! csrf_field() !!}
    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">حفظ!</button>
</form>

So this actually will generate an update form fields for the row which its id is 1.

Full Guide

$fields array writing rules.

1. Must provide label.
2. Must provide input which can be input, select or textarea.

If the input index is input you must provide a type index to provide the input type like text or number or date etc.

If the input type is select you can provide an options index which will contain an array for the select dropdown options. Or you can provide a relation index which will get options from a relation in the eloquent model.

Relation array

There's three types of Eloquent Relatioships supported till now in the package. You have to provide a type index in the relation array to specify the relation type based on the following:

1. belongsTo its type will be one because we will only select one option in this case.
2. hasMany Or belongsToMany: their type will be many because we will select multiple values.

If the type index in the relation array is one you will need to provide

• model index which will be the relation model.
• column which is the foreign key.
• selectFrom which will be the column we need to display in the option from the relation model.
• valueFrom which will be the column from the relational model that will be the value of the option of the select dropdown.

If the type index in the relation array is many you will need to provide

• name index which will be the name of the relation. For example if my model is User and it has many Role so the name of the relation will be roles or whatever the name of the relation you created in the User model.

You will also need to provide a selectFrom and valueFrom as well.

If the input is a select you can provide a valueFallback which will be a static method returns all the options in the dropdown and then you need to provide a valueCallback which will return the selected options collection.

Additional Preferences

There are multiple additional things that can be very usefull in all your fields specifications.

1. label_classes which is the label class attribute value. You can override the default classes which are control-label col-md-4.
2. input_div_classes which is the class attribute of the div that contains the input code. By default it's col-md-6.
3. input_classes:which is the class attribute of the input itself. By default it's form-control.
4. input_id which is the id attribute of the input itself. By default it's the field name.
5. inject_attributes which allows you to add additional attributes to the input. It just takes the string and put it in the input tag.

Examples.

A normal text field:

'name' => [
        'label' => 'Your name',
        'input' => 'input',
        'type' => 'text'
    	],

A number field:

'age' => [
        'label' => 'Your age',
        'input' => 'input',
        'type' => 'number'
    	],

If the model belongs to a role and we wanna make a select field for the roles.

'role_id' => [
    'label'    =>'Role',
    'input'    => 'select',
    'relation' => [
        'model'      => 'App\Role',
        'type'       => 'one',
        'column'     => 'role_id',
        'selectFrom' => 'name', 
        'valueFrom'  => 'id',
        // This is how selectFrom and valueFrom works
        // <option value="{{ $role->id }}">{{ $role->name }}</option>
    ],
],

What if the model belongs to many roles?

'roles[]' => [
    'label'    => 'Roles',
    'input'    => 'select',
    'relation' => [
        'name' => 'roles',
        'model' => 'App\Role',
        'type' => 'many',
        'selectFrom' => 'name',
        'valueFrom' => 'id'
    ],
    'inject_attributes' => 'multiple'
],

A full example how should be the $fields array of a user model.

<?php
namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Lilessam\EloquentFields\Traits\FormGenerator;

class User extends Model
{
    use FormGenerator;

    public static $fields = [
        'name'  => [
            'label' => 'Your name',
            'input' => 'input',
            'type'  => 'text',
        ],
        'age'   => [
            'label' => 'Your age',
            'input' => 'input',
            'type'  => 'number',
        ],
        'roles[]' => [
            'label'    => 'Roles',
            'input'    => 'select',
            'relation' => [
                'name'       => 'roles',
                'model'      => 'App\Role',
                'type'       => 'many',
                'selectFrom' => 'name',
                'valueFrom'  => 'id',
            ],
            'inject_attributes' => 'multiple'
        ],
    ];

    public function roles()
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany('App\Role');
    }
}

Example for valueCallbacks and valueFallbacks.

public static $fields = [
    'exception_ids[]' => [
        'label' => 'المنتجات المستثناة',
        'input' => 'select',
        'valueCallback' => 'getExceptionsValues',
        'valueFallback' => 'getAllProducts',
        'selectFrom' => 'name_ar',
        'valueFrom' => 'id',
        'inject_attributes' => 'multiple'
    ],
];

public function getExceptionsValues()
{
    $results = [];
    $exception_ids = $this->exception_ids ? json_decode($this->exception_ids) : [];
    foreach ($exception_ids as $exception_id) {
        $product = Product::find($exception_id);
        $results[] = $product;
    }

    return $results;
}

public static function getAllProducts()
{
    return Product::latest()->get();
}

Example for manual belongsTo relation with createValueCallbacks and updateValueFallbacks.

/**
* The attributes that are building the model forms.
* 
* @var array
*/
public static $fields = [
    'name_ar' => [
        'label' => 'الاسم بالعربية',
    ],
    'name_en' => [
        'label' => 'الاسم بالإنجليزية',
    ],
    'category_id' => [
        'label' => 'التصنيف الأساسي',
        'input' => 'select',
        'options' => [
            '' => 'لا تصنيف',
        ],
        'selectFrom' => 'name_ar',
        'valueFrom' => 'id',
        'valueCallback' => 'getCurrentValue', // Can be replaced with 'column' => 'category_id' for belongsTo relation
        'updateValueFallback' => 'getUpdateCategories',
        'createValueFallback' => 'getAllCategories',
    ],
];

/**
 * Get dropdown categories for EloquentFields.
 * 
 * @return self
*/
public function getUpdateCategories()
{
    return static::where('id', '!=', $this->id)->get();
}

/**
  * Get all dropdown categories for EloquentFields Creation.
 * 
 * @return self
 */
public static function getAllCategories()
{
    return static::latest()->get();
}

/**
 * Get Current value for the manual relation.
 * @return mixed
 */
public function getCurrentValue()
{
    return $this->category_id;
}

Then you can just call generate_fields('App\User') to generate a creation form fields or generate_fields('App\User', 1) to generate an update form fields for User whose id is 1.

Notice that you can pass a third parameter to generate_fields parameter to except one or many fields from being generated in the form.

So if we called generate_fields('App\User', null, 'age') a creation form will be created without age field. You can also pass an array so generate_fields('App\User', null, ['age', 'roles']) will create a creation form without roles and age fields.

Don't hesitate to make a pull request or post an issue if found.