Laravel Migration Actions

 Laravel Migration Actions

Laravel migration actions is like version control for your migration process, allowing your team to modify and share the application's actionable schema. If you have ever had to tell a teammate to perform any action on a production server manually, you've come across an issue that actions solve.

Actions are stored within a database/actions folder and operate similarly to the way migrations work. This package also includes an Artisan command to create new actions. Here's what an example action might look like:

 1<?php
 2 
 3use DragonCode\LaravelActions\Support\Actionable;
 4use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
 5 
 6class ExampleAction extends Actionable
 7{
 8    protected $transactions = true;
 9 
10    /**
11     * Run the actions.
12     *
13     * @return void
14     */
15    public function up(): void
16    {
17        DB::table('users')->insert([
18            'name' => 'Example User',
19            'email' => 'user@example.com',
20            'password' => bcrypt('password')
21        ]);
22    }
23 
24    /**
25     * Reverse the actions.
26     *
27     * @return void
28     */
29    public function down(): void
30    {
31        //
32    }
33}

Some of the packages main features include:

• Ability to run actions every time you call migrate:actions command
• Execution of actions only in specific environments
• Exclude actions from specific environments
• Easy database transactions in actions with configurable attempts before failing
• Rolling back actions
• Display the status of actions in the current environment

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

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Laravel Auto Binder Bind Interfaces to Implementations Automatically

Laravel Auto Binder Bind Interfaces to Implementations Automatically

Laravel Auto Binder is a package by Michael Rubel that binds interfaces to implementations automatically. This package automatically binds interfaces to implementations in the Service Container, scanning the specified project folders. This helps avoid manually registering container bindings when the project needs to bind many interfaces to its implementations without any additional dependencies.

Given the following file path conventions, your implementations are automatically available in the service container:

1namespace App\Services;
2 
3use App\Services\Interfaces\ExampleInterface;
4 
5class ExampleService implements ExampleInterface
6{}

The package's configuration gives you the option to change the convention of where to look for contracts and implementations. You have complete control over the type of bindings, interface naming conventions, and folders to scan.

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

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GetCandy E-commerce Package for Laravel

GetCandy E-commerce Package for Laravel

GetCandy is a package that brings functionality akin to Shopify and other e-commerce platforms to Laravel. You have complete freedom to create your storefront(s), but GetCandy has already done the hard work for you in the backend.

GetCandy can be added to any Laravel application and have the functionality to rival other offerings. The core package provides models for working with e-commerce, such as Cart objects and other conveniences around carts like matching a cart to a user/guest session.

Here's an example from the carts documentation that illustrates creating a cart, adding products, and accessing cart data:

 1$cart = Cart::create([
 2    'currency_id' => 1,
 3    'channel_id' => 2,
 4]);
 5 
 6$cart->lines()->create([
 7    'purchasable_type' => ProductVariant::class,
 8    'purchasable_id' => 123,
 9    'quantity' => 2,
10    'meta' => [
11        'personalization' => 'Love you mum xxx',
12    ]
13]);
14 
15// The total price value for the cart
16$cart->total;
17 
18// The cart sub total, excluding tax
19$cart->subTotal;
20 
21// The monetary value for the amount of tax applied.
22$cart->taxAmount;
23 
24// The monetary value for the discount total.
25$cart->discountTotal;
26 
27// This is a collection of all taxes applied across all lines.
28$cart->taxBreakdown;

At the time of writing, GetCandy is in public beta with some exciting features on the horizon, such as connecting your application to a modern PWA storefront or native mobile app. Some of the main features included with GetCandy include:

• Admin hub to manage products
• Admin is extensible with custom add-ons
• Cart management
• Product associations
• Currency models and exchange rates
• User and customer management
• Laravel Media Library support for images
• Localization support
• Order models and management
• And much more

To get started with GetCandy, the documentation will guide you through installation, configuration and provide a guide to learn how to work with this project. Since this project is open-source, you view the GetCandy source code on GitHub.

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