Laravel Eloquent Flag

Introduction

Eloquent boolean & timestamp flagged attributes behavior. Enhance Eloquent Models with commonly used state flags like Active, Published, Approved and others in a minutes!

Contents

• Features
• Available flags list
• How it works
• Installation
• Usage
• Changelog
• Upgrading
• Contributing
• Testing
• Security
• Contributors
• Alternatives
• License
• About CyberCog

Features

• Designed to work with Laravel Eloquent models.
• Each model can have many flags.
• Each flag adds global query scopes to models.
• 2 logical groups of flags: Classic, Inverse.
• 2 types of flags: Boolean, Timestamp.
• Flag fields auto-casting to bool & DateTime.
• Following PHP Standard Recommendations:
  • PSR-1 (Basic Coding Standard).
  • PSR-2 (Coding Style Guide).
  • PSR-4 (Autoloading Standard).
• Covered with unit tests.

Available flags list

Trait name	Logic	Database column	Flag type	Conflict
HasAcceptedAt	Classic	accepted_at	Timestamp	HasAcceptedFlag
HasAcceptedFlag	Classic	is_accepted	Boolean	HasAcceptedAt
HasActiveFlag	Classic	is_active	Boolean	-
HasApprovedAt	Classic	approved_at	Timestamp	HasApprovedFlag
HasApprovedFlag	Classic	is_approved	Boolean	HasApprovedAt
HasArchivedAt	Inverse	archived_at	Timestamp	HasArchivedFlag
HasArchivedFlag	Inverse	is_archived	Boolean	HasArchivedAt
HasClosedAt	Inverse	closed_at	Timestamp	HasClosedFlag
HasClosedFlag	Inverse	is_closed	Boolean	HasClosedAt
HasDraftedAt	Inverse	drafted_at	Timestamp	HasDraftedFlag
HasDraftedFlag	Inverse	is_drafted	Boolean	HasDraftedAt
HasEndedAt	Inverse	ended_at	Timestamp	HasEndedFlag
HasEndedFlag	Inverse	is_ended	Boolean	HasEndedAt
HasExpiredAt	Inverse	expired_at	Timestamp	HasExpiredFlag
HasExpiredFlag	Inverse	is_expired	Boolean	HasExpiredAt
HasInvitedAt	Classic	invited_at	Timestamp	HasInvitedFlag
HasInvitedFlag	Classic	is_invited	Boolean	HasInvitedAt
HasKeptFlag	Classic	is_kept	Boolean	-
HasPublishedAt	Classic	published_at	Timestamp	HasPublishedFlag
HasPublishedFlag	Classic	is_published	Boolean	HasPublishedAt
HasVerifiedAt	Classic	verified_at	Timestamp	HasVerifiedFlag
HasVerifiedFlag	Classic	is_verified	Boolean	HasVerifiedAt

Any entity can has more than one flag at the same time. If flags can't work for the same entity simultaneously they are listed in Conflict column.

How it works

Eloquent Flag is an easy way to add flagged attributes to eloquent models. All flags has their own trait which adds global scopes to desired entity.

There are 2 types of flags:

• Boolean flags are the common ones. Stored in database as BOOLEAN or TINYINT(1) value.
• Timestamp flags represented in database as nullable TIMESTAMP column. Useful when you need to know when action was performed.

All flags separated on 2 logical groups:

• Classic flags displays only entities with true or timestamp flag value by default.
• Inverse flags displays only entities with false or null flag value by default.

Omitted entities could be retrieved by using special global scope methods, unique for each flag.

Example: If your Article model has PublishedAt flag then Article::get() will return you only published records. When you need to get only unpublished records you could call Article::onlyUnpublished()->get() and Article::withUnpublished()->get() will return you published and unpublished articles as well.

Helper traits will automatically cast flag attributes to a DateTime / Carbon instance or bool for you.

Installation

Pull in the package through Composer.

composer require cybercog/laravel-eloquent-flag

Usage

Usage examples described in Wiki

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Upgrading

Please see UPGRADING for detailed upgrade instructions.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Testing

Run the tests with:

vendor/bin/phpunit

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

Contributors

Anton Komarev	zagreusinoz	Jona Goldman	Irfaq Syed	gpioto
Rayron Victor	Ugur Aydogdu

Eloquent Flag contributors list

Alternatives

Feel free to add more alternatives as Pull Request.

License

• Laravel Eloquent Flag package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license by Anton Komarev.
• Clock image licensed under Creative Commons 3.0 by Rudez Studio.

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