Eloquent Cloner Package

Cloner is a trait for Laravel Eloquent models that lets you clone a model, and it’s relationships, including files. Even to another database.

Here’s a basic example of a model using the Cloneable trait:

1class Article extends Eloquent
2{
3    use \Bkwld\Cloner\Cloneable;
4}

Here’s how you can clone a model instance, even to another database:

1$clone = Article::first()->duplicate();
2
3// Cloned to another database by connection name
4$clone = Article::first()->duplicateTo('production');

A more advanced example includes defining which relationships cloned along with the model:

 1class Article extends Eloquent
 2{
 3    use \Bkwld\Cloner\Cloneable;
 4
 5    protected $cloneable_relations = ['photos', 'authors'];
 6
 7    public function photos() {
 8        return $this->hasMany('Photo');
 9    }
10
11    public function authors() {
12        return $this->belongsToMany('Author');
13    }
14}

Check out the documentation for full details on how you can also define how to clone files attached to a model. You can learn more about this app and check out the source code on GitHub at BKWLD/cloner.