Laravel: Smartfields & form helper

Tired of repeating yourself? This package centralises everything to do with fields.

Navigation

Introduction
Field Types
Virtual Fields
Validation Rules
Model Attributes
Forms
Code Generation

Quick Usage

Add to composer.json:

"appoly/smart-schema": "^0.6.3",

Introduction

Instead of having to create a migration, a request, form views and set up fillable fields, we can instead create a smart migration which handles it all.

Example migration:

SmartSchema::create('sites', function ($table) {
    $table->increments("id");

    $table->integer("name");

    $table->text("name")
        ->nullable()
        ->required()
        ->fillable()
        ->max(5)
        ->forms([
            'type' => 'text',
            'label' => 'Site name'
        ]);

    $table->timestamps();
});

Options for fields

Field Types

Standard field types area available.

$table->text("name")
$table->integer("user_id")
$table->float("latitude")

etc...

Virtual Fields

In some cases, we may want fields in a form that don't correspond directy to our database tables.

We can then use:

$table->virtual("slot")->forms(...

Validation Rules

These can be chained to a field creation in your migration.

Example:

$table->text("email")->required()->email();

Available rules:

->unique()
->required()
->email()
->max( val )
->min( val )

Custom validation rules can be added with:

->addRule( rule )

When storing the object in your controller, the validation helper should be called with the object type:

public function store(Request $request) {
    SchemaHelper::validate($request, 'sites');
    
    // Process the request
    // ...
}

Model attributes

fillable()

Casts:

->array()
->datetime()

Model must have the SmartField trait to use fillable() or any of the attribute casts.

class User extends Model
{
    use SmartField;
}

Forms

The form helper will generate (currently Bootstrap 4) forms based on the field data.

In migration, use ->forms([... to show a field in the auto-generated forms:

->forms([
    'type' => 'text',
    'label' => 'Site name'
])

To render a basic form:

{!! \Appoly\SmartSchema\SchemaHelper::form('sites', route('sites.store')) !!}

Multiple choice form fields such as selects and radio buttons will need a set of options.

In the case of the following field:

$table->id("role")
        ->forms([
            'type' => 'select', // or 'type' => 'radio'
            'label' => 'Role'
        ]);

Options can be passed like so:

{!! \Appoly\SmartSchema\SchemaHelper::form('sites', route('sites.store'), [
    'select_options' => [
        'role_id' => ['User', 'Admin']
    ]
]) !!}

Or with keys

{!! \Appoly\SmartSchema\SchemaHelper::form('sites', route('sites.store'), [
    'select_options' => [
        'role_id' => [
            10001 => 'User', 
            20001 => 'Admin'
        ]
    ]
]) !!}

Code Generation

This package includes a console command which will set up a boilerplate controller and view code.

php artisan crud:generate {resource_name_singular}

For example:

php artisan crud:generate client