Persistent CMS style site settings for Laravel

Support

This version supports Laravel 5.4 / PHP 7.0 and above.

Installation

Install using Composer by running:

composer require BWibrew/laravel-sitesettings

Only for Laravel 5.4: Add the service provider to the providers array in config/app.php:

'providers' => [
    ...
    BWibrew\SiteSettings\SiteSettingsServiceProvider::class,
];

Laravel 5.5 and above will automatically register the service provider.

Then run table migrations with:

php artisan migrate

Publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="BWibrew\SiteSettings\SiteSettingsServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Publish the migrations with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="BWibrew\SiteSettings\SiteSettingsServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"

Configuring your models

Add the following interface, trait and $fillable attribute to your Setting model:

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use BWibrew\SiteSettings\Traits\ManagesSettings;
use BWibrew\SiteSettings\Interfaces\SettingInterface;

class Setting extends Model implements SettingInterface
{
    use ManagesSettings;
    
    protected $fillable = [
        'name',
        'value',
        'updated_by',
    ];
    
    //
}

If using scopes then also add the following interface, trait and $fillable attribute to your Scope model:

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use BWibrew\SiteSettings\Interfaces\ScopeInterface;
use BWibrew\SiteSettings\Traits\ManagesSettingScopes;

class Scope extends Model implements ScopeInterface
{
    use ManagesSettingScopes;
    
    protected $fillable = [
        'name',
    ];
    
    //
}

File Uploads

Note: PHP 7.0 and above is required to use file uploads.

To support the ability to save uploaded files as settings you also need to install the spatie/laravel-medialibrary package.

composer require spatie/laravel-medialibrary

Full installation instructions can be found here.

Here is the minimum set-up needed:

Only for Laravel 5.4: Add the service provider to the providers array in config/app.php:

'providers' => [
    ...
    Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaLibraryServiceProvider::class,
];

Laravel 5.5 and above will automatically register the service provider.

Publish the migration with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaLibraryServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"

Then run table migrations with:

php artisan migrate

Add a disk to app/config/filesystems.php. e.g:

    ...
    'disks' => [
        ...

        'media' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root'   => public_path().'/media',
        ],
    ...

Lastly, you will need to use SettingWithMediaInterface and ManagesSettingsWithMedia instead of SettingInterface and ManagesSettings on your Setting model.

Usage

This package provides a convenient API for using the settings with an existing Eloquent Model.

Registering a new setting

A setting is created like this:

Setting::register('homepage_title');

You can also assign a value when creating a setting:

Setting::register('homepage_title', 'Laravel Site Settings');

You can then retrieve the value of the setting:

Setting::getValue($name);

Updating a setting

To update an existing setting:

$setting = Setting::where('name', 'setting_name')->first();

// Update setting value
$setting->updateValue('A new title');

// Update setting name
$setting->updateName('new_name');

You can also retrieve the ID of the user whom last updated the setting and when the update was made.

Setting::getUpdatedBy($name); // Returns user ID

Setting::getUpdatedAt($name); // Returns Carbon date object

Using scopes

You can categories your settings into 'scopes'. Scopes use a simple dot syntax on the setting name.

To assign or retrieve a setting in a scope, place the scope name in front of the setting name and separate them with a dot: scope_name.setting_name. This works the same way with all methods which take a setting name as a parameter.

There are also a number of extra methods used with scopes:

// Return an array of all values from a scope
Setting::getScopeValues();

// Return the user ID of the user which last updated a setting in a scope
Setting::getScopeUpdatedBy();

// Return when the most recent update was made in a scope
Setting::getScopeUpdatedAt();

To update or remove a scope:

$setting = Setting::where('name', 'setting_name')->first();

$setting->updateScope('new_scope_name');

$setting->removeScope();

Usage with file uploads

This package can make use of the amazing Spatie/MediaLibrary to provide the ability to associate settings with uploaded media.

To use a file upload as a setting simply set the file upload as the setting value.

Example:

$file = $request->file('avatar');

$setting = Setting::register('avatar', $file);

The value returned on a file upload setting is a string controlled by the media_value_type config value.

Configuration

Set use_scopes to false to disable the use of scopes.

The media_value_type setting controls the value stored in the settings table. This can be set to 'file_name', 'path' or 'url'.

Testing

Run tests with:

composer test