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A Laravel package that keeps your staging database in sync with production, safely and selectively. Useful for automated QA environments, pre-release testing, and reducing the overhead of managing up-to-date test data.

🚀 Features

• Sync data from production to staging
• Select specific tables to sync or use --all to sync everything
• Exclude or obfuscate sensitive columns
• Truncate staging tables before syncing
• Dry-run mode for safe simulation
• Batch processing to handle large tables
• Console command for manual or scheduled syncs

📦 Installation

composer require n02srt/laravel-staging-sync
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=staging-sync-config

⚙️ Configuration

Edit the published config file at config/staging-sync.php:

return [
    'tables' => [
        'users' => [
            'exclude_columns' => ['password', 'email'],
            'obfuscate' => ['email'],
        ],
        'orders',
        'products',
    ],
    'batch_size' => 500,
    'truncate_before_insert' => true,
    'dry_run' => false,
];

Define source/target connections in your .env file:

STAGING_SYNC_SOURCE_DB_CONNECTION=production
STAGING_SYNC_TARGET_DB_CONNECTION=staging

🛠 Usage

Run the Sync

php artisan staging:sync

Options

• --dry-run — Simulate syncing without writing to the staging DB
• --all — Sync all tables from the source DB, except those in exclude_tables

Examples

php artisan staging:sync --dry-run
php artisan staging:sync --all

🧪 Advanced Use

Scheduling

Add the command to your App\Console\Kernel.php:

$schedule->command('staging:sync --all')->dailyAt('02:00');

Obfuscation

To protect sensitive data in staging, configure fields under obfuscate. Emails and similar fields will be replaced with hashed dummy values.

🧱 Package Structure

• src/StagingSyncServiceProvider.php — Service provider
• src/Console/SyncStagingCommand.php — Artisan command
• config/staging-sync.php — Configuration file

✅ Roadmap

• ✅ Initial release with config + Artisan support
• ✅ --all support for syncing all tables
• ⏳ Web interface (Filament/Nova)
• ⏳ Slack/email notifications
• ⏳ Queue integration for async syncing

🧑‍💻 License

MIT License — free to use, modify, and distribute.

Made with ❤️ to make staging feel less like guesswork.