library counter-cache

nodes/counter-cache

Counter caching for Laravel

Counter Cache

⚠️This package is deprecated⚠️, _(*1)

Brings the ruby concept of "counter caching" to Laravel., _(*2)

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📝 Introduction

One thing we at Nodes have been missing in Laravel is the concept of "counter caching"., _(*4)

Laravel comes "out of the box" with the increment/decrement methods on it's Eloquent models. But you'll need to manually execute these methods everytime, you've saved/delete stuff with your model., _(*5)

Since the increment/decrement methods always +1/-1, you can't 100% rely on these as cached value. What if you forgot to execute the decrement method when you deleted a row. Or what if someone deleted a row directly from the database, then your count would be "out of sync"., _(*6)

Therefore we've created this package which brings "counter caching" to Laravel., _(*7)

The difference between this package and Laravel's increment/decrement is that our package actually generates and fires a SQL count statement, that counts the entries and updates the desired column with the result., _(*8)

This way you're always 100% sure that the value in your "counter cache" column is correct., _(*9)

📦 Installation

To install this package you will need:, _(*10)

• Laravel 5.1+
• PHP 5.5.9+

You must then modify your composer.json file and run composer update to include the latest version of the package in your project., _(*11)

"require": {
    "nodes/counter-cache": "^1.0"
}

Or you can run the composer require command from your terminal., _(*12)

composer require nodes/counter-cache:^1.0

⚙ Usage

Please refer to the Wiki documentation for more information., _(*13)

🏆 Credits

This package is developed and maintained by the PHP team at Nodes Agency, _(*14)

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📄 License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license, _(*16)