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This package provides some utilities and patterns to work with Laravel databases

Note: This package is in active development and NOT ready for production.

Features

• Automatic default and extendable repository pattern.
• Cache system over repository pattern.
• Model abstraction layer.

Requirements

• PHP 5.5 or higher.
• Laravel 5.

Installation

Require this package with composer:

composer require ablunier/laravel-database

After updating composer, add the ServiceProvider and Facade (optional) to the app.php config file:

// config/app.php

'providers' => [
    '...',
    Ablunier\Laravel\Database\Manager\ModelManagerServiceProvider::class,
];

'aliases' => [
    '...',
    'ModelManager' => Ablunier\Laravel\Database\Manager\Facades\ModelManager::class,
];

Copy the package config to your local config with the publish command:

php artisan vendor:publish

Usage

Repository pattern

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use ModelManager;
use View;

class ExampleController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $repo = ModelManager::getRepository('App\User');

        $users = $repo->all();

        View::make('users.index', [
            'users' => $users
        ]);
    }
}

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Ablunier\Laravel\Database\Contracts\Manager\ModelManager;
use View;

class ExampleController extends Controller
{
    protected $mm;

    public function __construct(ModelManager $mm)
    {
        $this->mm = $mm;
    }

    public function index()
    {
        $repo = $this->mm->getRepository('App\User');

        $users = $repo->all();

        View::make('users.index', [
            'users' => $users
        ]);
    }
}

Cache

Abstraction layer

Documentation

Visit the wiki for more information.

License

This software is published under the MIT License