README

A set of utilities for sorting models in Laravel.

Installation

Install using composer: composer require konsulting/laravel-sorting

Usage

Sorting

• Add the Konsulting\Laravel\Sorting\Sortable trait to your model.
• Set up the configuration for the model by adding the $sortableSettings property providing the allowed sortable fields and a default sort order.

protected static $sortableSettings = [
    'sortable' => ['name', 'created_at', 'updated_at'],
    'defaultSort' => '+name',
];

• In your view where you’d like to add a sortable link, include the following (example for a Post model):

{{ App\Post::sortableLink('name', 'Name') }}

• When you want retrive a sorted collection of models, use the sort() method.

App\Post::sort()->paginate();
// The sort method will extract the sort variable from the request, unless you pass them through (e.g. if you store in the session).

Prioritise

• Add the Konsulting\Laravel\Sorting\Prioritise trait to your model.

• Ensure your model has a column for 'priority'. By default, this is called 'priority' but can be overriden if needed by overriding the determinePriorityColumnName() method in the model.

• Use the prioritise scope to sort the retrieved results by priority.

Security

If you find any security issues, or have any concerns, please email keoghan@klever.co.uk, rather than using the issue tracker.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and will be fully credited. We will accept contributions by Pull Request.

Please:

• Use the PSR-2 Coding Standard
• Add tests, if you’re not sure how, please ask.
• Document changes in behaviour, including readme.md.

Testing

We use PHPUnit.

Run tests using PHPUnit: vendor/bin/phpunit