Laracademy Generators

Laracademy Generators - is a tool set that helps speed up the development process of a Laravel application.

Author(s):

• Laracademy (@laracademy, michael@laracademy.co)

Requirements

1. PHP 5.6+
2. Laravel 5.2+ / Lumen 5.2+

Usage

Step 1: Install through Composer

composer require "laracademy/generators"

Step 2: Add the Service Provider

The easiest method is to add the following into your config/app.php file

Laracademy\Generators\GeneratorsServiceProvider::class

In Lumen you can add the following into your bootstrap/app.php

$app->register(Laracademy\Generators\GeneratorsServiceProvider::class);

Depending on your set up you may want to only use these providers for development, so you don't update your production servers. Instead, add the provider in `app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php' like so

public function register()
{
    if($this->app->environment() == 'local') {
        $this->app->register('\Laracademy\Generators\GeneratorsServiceProvider');
    }
}

Step 3: Artisan Command

Now that we have added the generator to our project the last thing to do is run Laravel's Arisan command

php artisan

You will see the following in the list

generate:modelfromtable

Commands

generate:modelfromtable

This command will read your database table and generate a model based on that table structure. The fillable fields, casts, dates and even namespacing will be filled in automatically.

You can use this command to generate a single table, multiple tables or all of your tables at once.

This command comes with a bunch of different options, please see below for each parameter

• --table=
  • This parameter if filled in will generate a model for the given table.
  • You can also pass in a list of tables using comma separated values.
• --all
  • If this flag is present, then the table command will be ignored.
  • This will generate a model for all tables found in your database.
  • please note that this command will only ignore the migrations table and no model will be generate for it
• --connection=
  • by default if this option is omitted then the generate will use the default connection found in config/database.php
  • To specify a connection ensure that it exists in your config/database.php first.
• --folder=
  • by default all models are store in your app/ directory. If you wish to store them in another place you can provide the relative path from your base laravel application.
  • please see examples for more information
• --namespace=
  • by default all models will have the namespace of App
  • you can change the namespace by adding this option
• --debug
  • this shows some more information while running

Examples

Generating a single table

php artisan generate:modelfromtable --table=users

Generating a multiple tables

php artisan generate:modelfromtable --table=users,posts

Generating all tables

php artisan generate:modelfromtable --all

Changing to another connection found in database.php and generating models for all tables

php artisan generate:modelfromtable --connection=spark --all

Changing the folder where to /app/Models

php artisan generate:modelfromtable --table=user --folder=app\Models

License

ModelGen is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license

Bug Reporting and Feature Requests

Please add as many details as possible regarding submission of issues and feature requests

Disclaimer

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.