thomasgroch/crud

#Laravel Crud Generator

This is the first release of Crud package and it needs a lot of testing and even more improvements.

##Instalation

1. Run composer command:

composer require wilgucki/crud

2. Add service provider to app.php config file.

'providers' => [
    //... 
    Wilgucki\Crud\CrudServiceProvider::class,
]

3. If you don't use Laravel Collective Form package in your project, add it to app.php config file

'providers' => [
    //... 
    Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,
]

'aliases' => [
    //...
    'Form' => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
    'Html' => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,
]

4. Publish package files with command

php artisan vendor:publish --provider=Wilgucki\\Crud\\CrudServiceProvider

##Usage

Laravel Crud Generator offers new artisan commands that will speed up your work.

• crud:from-database
• crud:from-file
• crud:generate
• crud:controller
• crud:migration
• crud:model
• crud:view

###Creating Crud From Database Table

php artisan crud:from-database table_name --controller-path=Admin --controller-namespace=Admin --view-path=admin --model-namespace=App\Models --model-path=Models --validator=name:'required|unique:users',email:'required|email' --with-route --theme=bootstrap

This command allows you to generate crud based on specified database table.

Available options:

• with-route (optional) - Adds route to routes.php
• controller-path (optional) - Controller path relative to Http/Controllers dir
• controller-namespace (optional) - Use custom namespace in your controller
• view-path (optional) - Relative to views directory path where view files will be created
• layout (optional) - extend custom layout. Default value - layouts.master (generator will create this file)
• theme (optional) - View theme
• model-namespace (optional) - Custom model namespace
• model-path (optional) - Relative to app directory
• validator (optional) - Validator rules field_name:rules. Remember to put your rules in apostrophe sign (')

###Creating Crud From Config File

If you don't want to write long commands with multiple options, you can generate crud from config file. Moreover you can generate multiple cruds from one file. To do so edit generator.php file placed under resources/crud directory.

Structure of generator file:

return [
    'Foo' => [
        'fields' => [
            'name' => [
                'type' => 'string',
                'rules' => 'required|max:150'
            ],
            'email' => [
                'type' => 'string',
                'rules' => 'required|email|unique:foos'
            ]
        ],
        'controller' => [
            'path' => 'Admin',
            'namespace' => 'Admin'
        ],
        'model' => [
            'path' => 'Models',
            'namespace' => 'App\Models'
        ],
        'view' => [
            'layout' => 'layouts.admin',
            'path' => 'admin',
            'theme' => 'bootstrap'
        ],
        'with-route' => true
    ]
];

• Foo (required) - crud name
• fields (required) - array of fileds to generate where key is field name and value is array of values
  • type (required) - filed type. You can find these types in official Laravel documentation.
  • rules (optional) - validator rules
• controller (optional)
  • path (optional) - Controller path relative to Http/Controllers dir
  • namespace (optional) - Custom namespace in your controller
• model (optional)
  • path (optional) - Relative to app directory
  • namespace (optional) - Custom model namespace
• view (optional)
  • layout (optional) - extend custom layout. Default value - layouts.master (generator will create this file)
  • path (optional) - use this option if you want to place your views deeper in directory structure
  • theme (optional) - view theme
• with-route (optional) - using this option will create resource route in routes.php file

###Creating Crud

php artisan crud:generate SomeName --fields=name:string,description:text,is_public:boolean,added_at:dateTime --controller-path=Admin --controller-namespace=Admin --view-path=admin --model-namespace=App\Models --model-path=Models --validator=name:'required|unique:users',email:'required|email' --with-route --theme=bootstrap

Crud:generate command will create model, controller, migration and views files based on given name and fileds. After you run this command you will need to run migration command to create database table.

php artisan migrate

Available options:

• fields (required) - Fields used by migration, model and views
• with-route (optional) - Adds route to routes.php
• controller-path (optional) - Controller path relative to Http/Controllers dir
• controller-namespace (optional) - Use custom namespace in your controller
• view-path (optional) - Relative to views directory path where view files will be created
• model-namespace (optional) - Custom model namespace
• model-path (optional) - Relative to app directory
• validator (optional) - Validator rules field_name:rules. Remember to put your rules in apostrophe sign (')
• layout (optional) - extend custom layout. Default value - layouts.master (generator will create this file)
• theme (optional) - View theme

###Creating Controller

php artisan crud:controller SomeName --model=ModelName --namespace=App\SomeNamespace --path=Admin --with-route

This command generates resource controller. You only need to specify controller name without Controller suffix. Optional parameters you can use:

• model (optional) - name of the model to use for database access. Default value is the same as controller name
• namespace (optional) - custom namespace. Default value - App\Http\Controllers
• path (optional) - place your controller in directory relative to Http/Controllers dir
• with-route (optional) - using this option will create resource route in routes.php file

###Creating Migration

php artisan crud:migration SomeName --fields=name:string,description:text,added_at:dateTime

Creates database migration named CreateSomeNamesTable. Required option --fileds accepts key:value pairs, where key is field name and value is column type. You can find these types in official Laravel documentation.

###Creating Model

php artisan crud:model SomeModel --table=table_name --fillable=name,description --namespace=App\SomeNamespace

You can generate model using above command. You need to specify model name. Remaining parameters are optional. You can use them to:

• table (optional) - change database table name. Default name is generated based on model name
• fillable (optional) - list of filds added to $fillable array
• namespace (optional) - use this option to change models' namespace. Default value - App

###Creating Views

php artisan crud:view SomeName --fields=name:string,description:text,added_at:dateTime --layout=layouts.blog.master --content-section=page_content --path=admin --theme=bootstrap

Last but not least - generating views. To generate view you need to pass view name as well as list of fields. You can find field types in official Laravel documentation. Other options are:

• layout (optional) - extend custom layout. Default value - layouts.master (generator will create this file)
• content-section (optional)- name of the blade section where view will be generated. Default value - content
• path (optional) - use this option if you want to place your views deeper in directory structure
• theme (optional) - View theme

##Stubs

Stubs are templates used to populate generated files. When you run php artisan vendor:publish --provider=Wilgucki\\Crud\\CrudServiceProvider command, these files are copied to resources/crud/stubs directory. By default crud generator uses default directory to get templates. If you want to use different theme you can do it with --theme option. For now you can choose only bootstrap as theme. I will add new themes soon.

###Custom stubs and themes

If prepadred stubs are missing something you need in your application, you can easily modify them. To do so, create new folder under resources/crud/stubs directory and copy all files you need to change. Make your changes and use generator with theme option. You don't need to copy all files to your custom theme - generator will use stubs from default for missing files.

Don't mess with placeholders starting from Dummy. These placeholders are used to populate custom data like class names, namespaces, views and few other important things. If you remove or change them, generated code could (and probably will) be invalid.

##TODO (custom order)

• rewrite generators and stubs to use more user friendly variables (instead of $item)
• test this package against Laravel 5.1
• improve README, check for typos and other errors
• allow to define actions generated by controller generator