Laravel 5 CRUD Generator
Laravel CRUD Generator, (*1)
Requirements
Laravel >=5.1
PHP >= 5.5.9
Installation
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Run, (*2)
composer require jaapmoolenaar.nl/crud-generator
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Add service provider to /config/app.php file., (*3)
'providers' => [
...
Appzcoder\CrudGenerator\CrudGeneratorServiceProvider::class,
],
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Add service provider & aliases for laravelcollective/html to /config/app.php file., (*4)
'providers' => [
...
Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,
],
'aliases' => [
...
'Form' => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
'HTML' => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,
],
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Add service provider & aliases for laracasts/flash to /config/app.php file., (*5)
'providers' => [
...
Laracasts\Flash\FlashServiceProvider::class,
],
'aliases' => [
...
'Flash' => Laracasts\Flash\Flash::class,
],
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Run composer update if composer hasn't installed the updates already, (*6)
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Publish config file & generator template files., (*7)
php artisan vendor:publish
This copies the stubs to resources/crud-generator/, remember to enable them in the config ('custom_template' in crudgenerator.php) if you want to use them, (*8)
Note: You should have configured database for this operation., (*9)
Commands
Crud command:
php artisan crud:generate Posts --fields="title:string, body:text"
You can also easily include route, set primary key, set views directory etc through options --route, --pk, --view-path as belows:, (*10)
php artisan crud:generate Posts --fields="title:string:required, body:text:required" --route=yes --pk=id --view-path="admin" --namespace=Admin --route-group=admin
Options:, (*11)
- --fields : Fields name for the form & model.
- --route : Include Crud route to routes.php? yes or no.
- --pk : The name of the primary key.
- --view-path : The name of the view path.
- --namespace : Namespace of the controller.
- --route-group : Prefix of the route group.
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Other commands (optional):
For controller generator:, (*12)
php artisan crud:controller PostsController --crud-name=posts --model-name=Post --view-path="directory" --route-group=admin
For model generator:, (*13)
php artisan crud:model Post --fillable="['title', 'body']"
For migration generator:, (*14)
php artisan crud:migration posts --schema="title:string, body:text"
For view generator:, (*15)
php artisan crud:view posts --fields="title:string, body:text" --view-path="directory" --route-group=admin
By default, the generator will attempt to append the crud route to your routes.php file. If you don't want the route added, you can use the option --route=no., (*16)
After creating all resources, run migrate command. If necessary, include the route for your crud as well., (*17)
php artisan migrate
If you chose not to add the crud route in automatically (see above), you will need to include the route manually., (*18)
Route::resource('posts', 'PostsController');
Supported Field Types
These fields are supported for migration and view's form:, (*19)
- string
- char
- varchar
- password
- email
- date
- datetime
- time
- timestamp
- text
- mediumtext
- longtext
- json
- jsonb
- binary
- number
- integer
- bigint
- mediumint
- tinyint
- smallint
- boolean
- decimal
- double
- float
Custom Generator's Stub Template
You can customize the generator's stub files/templates to achieve your need., (*20)
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Make sure you've published package's assets., (*21)
php artisan vendor:publish
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Turn on custom_template support on /config/crudgenerator.php, (*22)
'custom_template' => true,
- From the directory /resources/crud-generator/ you can modify or customize the stub files.
Other configuration options
You're able to use another layout to extend than 'layouts.master', by using this configuration option:
(If it's anything other than the default 'layouts.master', the layout stub will not be copied), (*23)
'extend_layout' => 'layouts.app',
If you use another section name in your layout, set it using:, (*24)
'section_name' => 'sub_content',
Set middleware to be used by the resource controller, using:
(Laravel 5.2's 'web' middleware, will be added automatically), (*25)
'middleware' => 'auth',
Authors
Sohel Amin, (*26)
Jaap Moolenaar, (*27)
Wallogit.com
