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.

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Laravel Search String

 Laravel Search String is a package by Loris Leiva that generates database queries based on one unique string using a simple and customizable syntax.

Laravel Search String provides a simple solution for scoping your database queries using a human-readable and customizable syntax. It will transform a simple string into a powerful query builder.

Here’s a nice visual example of what this all means taken from the project’s readme:

Here’s a brief code example that is taken from the readme using the search string and the equivalent query builder:

1Article::usingSearchString('title:"My blog article" or not published sort:-created_at');
2
3// Equivalent to:
4Article::where('title', 'My blog article')
5       ->orWhere('published', false)
6       ->orderBy('created_at', 'desc');

Check out the documentation for full details on the extensive search syntax and all the customizations you can make. You can learn more about this package and check out the source code on GitHub at lorisleiva/laravel-search-string.

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Laravel Money

Laravel Money is a composer package by Ricardo Gobbo de Souza for working with and formatting money in Laravel projects.

Laravel money uses the moneyphp/money PHP package under the hood and gives you a bunch of helpers:

1use Cknow\Money\Money;
2
3echo Money::USD(500); // $5.00

This package includes a ton of advanced features for doing money operations, comparisons, aggregations, formatting, and parsing:

 1// Basic operations
 2Money::USD(500)->add(Money::USD(500)); // $10.00
 3Money::USD(500)->subtract(Money::USD(400)); // $1.00
 4
 5// Aggregation
 6Money::min(Money::USD(100), Money::USD(200), Money::USD(300)); // Money::USD(100)
 7
 8// Formatters
 9Money::USD(500)->format(); // $5.00
10
11// Parsers
12Money::parse('$1.00'); // Money::USD(100)

You can also create a custom formatter for your specific use-case:

1Money::USD(500)->formatByFormatter(new MyFormatter());

Be sure to check out the advanced usage and included helper functions in the project’s README file. Also, check out the Money PHP documentation for complete details of what this package is capable of doing.

You can learn more about this package and check out the source code on GitHub at cknow/laravel-money.

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Junges Laravel ACL

Junges Laravel ACL is a package by Mateus Junges that helps you to associate users with permissions and permission groups.

This package stores permissions for users and groups (to which users may belong) in the database with the following core features:

• Check a user for ACL permissions
• Sync a user’s permissions
• Sync a group’s permissions
• Check permissions in the view layer with @can or provided custom directives

At the heart of this package is the UserTrait:

1use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
2use Junges\ACL\Traits\UsersTrait;
3
4class User extends Authenticatable
5{
6    use UserTrait;
7
8    //
9}

You can sync user and group permissions with the syncPermissions() method:

 1// With permission id array:
 2$user->syncPermissions([1, 2, 4]);
 3
 4// With permission slugs array:
 5$user->syncPermissions(['permission-slug-1', 'permission-slug-2']);
 6
 7// With instance of permission model arrays:
 8$user->syncPermissions([Permission::find(1), Permission::find(2)]);
 9
10// Just as above you can sync group permissions. Here's the id version:
11$group->syncPermissions([1, 2, 4]);

Check out the usage documentation for a complete list of methods and package capabilities. You can learn more about this package and check out the source code on GitHub at mateusjunges/laravel-acl.

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Laravel Google Translate

 Laravel Google Translate is a package that provides an artisan console command to translate your localization files with the Google translation API. You can either leverage stichoza/google-translate-php without an API key or configure your Google Translate API key.

The console command php artisan translate:files walks you through some prompts to determine how to proceed with your translations files:

Future goals of this package include handling vendor translations, a web interface, and adding other translation APIs such as Yandex, Bing, etc.

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at tanmuhittin/laravel-google-translate.

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