Laravel Settings

Persistent, application-wide settings for Laravel 5., _(*2)

Attention: This package is a work in progress, please use with care and be sure to report any issues!, _(*3)

Installation

Require the package from your composer.json file, _(*4)

"require": {
    "vendocrat/laravel-settings": "dev-master"
}

and run $ composer update or both in one with $ composer require vendocrat/laravel-settings., _(*5)

Next register the service provider and (optional) facade to your config/app.php file, _(*6)

'providers' => [
    // Illuminate Providers ...
    // App Providers ...
    vendocrat\Settings\SettingsServiceProvider::class
];

'providers' => [
    // Illuminate Facades ...
    'Setting' => vendocrat\Settings\Facades\Setting::class
];

Configuration

Laravel Settings includes an optional config file. Get started buy publishing it:, _(*7)

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="vendocrat\Settings\SettingsServiceProvider" --tag="config"

This will create a config/settings.php file where you can set for example which driver you want to use (JSON file, database, ...)., _(*8)

Migration

Note: You'll only need to complete this step when using the database driver., _(*9)

If you want to store your settings in your database, you'll have to set 'driver' in your config/settings.php file to 'database' and publish the migration like so:, _(*10)

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="vendocrat\Settings\SettingsServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"

Afterwards you'll have to run the artisan migrate command:, _(*11)

$ php artisan migrate

Usage

Get all settings

$settings = \Setting::all();

Check if a setting exists

\Setting::has($key);

Get a setting

$setting = \Setting::get($key);

Add/update a setting

\Setting::set($key, $value);

Delete a setting

\Setting::forget($key);

Delete all settings

\Setting::flush();

Save your updates (set, forget, flush)

\Setting::save();

Example

The following example would store the setting 'bar' with the key 'foo', then update it to 'bars', save it and then die & dump all current settings, which is only one unique 'foo' key-value pair., _(*12)

\Setting::set('foo', 'bar');
\Setting::set('foo', 'bars');

\Setting::save();

dd(\Setting::all());

Results in, _(*13)

array [
  "foo" => "bars"
]

My Edits

restructured folders & files
uses Eloquent models for database driver with soft deleting
add interface contract
removed middleware

To-Dos

add Redis support
add option to group settings (e.g. config/user/...)
add logic to automatically render input forms in the frontend for settings (like a simple App Settings view or so)