Enum cast for Eloquent

Simple Enum cast for Eloquent ORM using myclabs/php-enum.

Important!

Since the release of PHP 8.1 this package is no longer maintained!

With PHP 8.1 you should use native enums and as of Laravel v8.71.0 Eloquent has official support to cast from and to native backed enums.

Requirements

PHP ^7.3 or PHP ^8.0
Laravel 8.0 or higher

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require orkhanahmadov/eloquent-enum-cast

Usage

Let's say you have following Enum class using myclabs/php-enum.

namespace App\Enums;

use MyCLabs\Enum\Enum;

class Role extends Enum
{
    private const ADMIN = 1;
    private const USER = 2;
}

To make it Eloquent castable, instead of MyCLabs\Enum\Enum, extend from Orkhanahmadov\EloquentEnumCast\EnumCast

namespace App\Enums;

use Orkhanahmadov\EloquentEnumCast\EnumCast;

class Role extends EnumCast
{
    private const ADMIN = 1;
    private const USER = 2;
}

Note: Orkhanahmadov\EloquentEnumCast\EnumCast extends MyCLabs\Enum\Enum, you can still use any other methods and properties that it has.

Finally, in your Eloquent model cast attribute using your Enum class

use App\Enums\Role;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class User extends Model
{
    protected $casts = [
        'role' => Role::class,
    ];
}

Now Eloquent will cast raw database values to your App\Enums\Role enum whenever you retrieve User model from database.

Likewise, whenever you save User model with App\Enums\Role enum as role attribute Eloquent will automatically save enum's underlying value into database.

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email hi@orkhan.dev instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

tobyberster/eloquent-enum-cast