Define Model Attributes With Laravel Fluent

Laravel Fluent is a package by Boris Lepikhin that provides an expressive way to define model attributes. This package automatically builds casts at runtime and gives you native auto-completion of model properties:

 1// Before
 2 
 3/**
 4 * @property Collection $features
 5 * @property float $price
 6 * @property int $available
 7 */
 8class Product extends Model
 9{
10    protected $casts = [
11        'features' => 'collection',
12        'price' => 'float',
13        'available' => 'integer',
14    ];
15}
16 
17// After
18use Based\Fluent\Fluent;
19 
20class Product extends Model
21{
22    use Fluent;
23 
24    public Collection $features;
25    public float $price;
26    public int $available;
27}

This package supports all native PHP types and laravel primitive casts:

 1class Order extends Model
 2{
 3    use Fluent;
 4 
 5    public int $amount;
 6    public Carbon $expires_at;
 7 
 8    #[AsDecimal(2)]
 9    public float $total;
10 
11    #[Cast('encrypted:array')]
12    public array $payload;
13}

This package can also handle model relations. You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.