LaravelSupport

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Various support classes for Laravel 5+.

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####Installation

Install with composer:

composer require patinthehat/laravel-support

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Classes

#####ExtendedSeeder ExtendedSeeder is an extended version of the Seeder class and provides easy foreign key check enable/disable and table truncating. It also allows for easy access to Faker.

######Methods

• getFaker() - returns an instance of Faker\Factory (see Faker).
• init($tableName, $disableForeignKeyChecks = true, $deleteAllTableEntries = true) - call at the beginning of run().
• cleanup() - call at the end of run().

######Sample Usage:

use App\Support\ExtendedSeeder;
use App\User;

class UserTableSeeder extends ExtendedSeeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        //disable foreign key checks, delete all existing table entries
        $this->init('users', true, true); 
        //seed the table
        $text = $this->getFaker()->text();
        $this->cleanup();
    }
}

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#####ExtendedMigration ExtendedMigration is an extended version of the Migration class and provides easy foreign key creation/deletion.

######Methods

######Sample Usage:

use LaravelSupport\Database\ExtendedMigration;

class CreateForeignKeys extends ExtendedMigration
{
    //define the FKs
    protected $foreignKeyDefinitions = [
        'info.author_id' => ['authors.id', 'cascade', 'cascade'],
        'info.book_id' => ['books.id', null, null],
        'table2.test_id' => 'tests.id',
        'myinfo.publisher_id' => null, //creates FK on 'publishers.id'
    ];
    
    //automatically create/delete FKs
    protected $autoCreateDefinedKeys = true;
    protected $autoDeleteDefinedKeys = true;
}

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License

LaravelSupport is available under the MIT License.