A Collection of ISO standards as PHP Enums

 The PrinsFrank/standards package is a collection of standards as PHP Enums, such as ISO3166, ISO4217, ISO639, and more. Specifically, this package includes support for common language ISO codes, country codes, and currencies.

For example, ISO 3166 deals with country code standards, such as two-letter country codes, three letter cords, and alpha-numeric codes:

// ISO3166_1_Alpha_2::Netherlands
$valueAlpha2 = ISO3166_1_Alpha_2::from('NL');
$valueAlpha2->value; // 'NL'
$valueAlpha2->name; // 'Netherlands'
 
// ISO3166_1_Alpha_3::Netherlands
$valueAlpha2->toISO3166_1_Alpha_3();
// ISO3166_1_Numeric::Netherlands
$valueAlpha2->toISO3166_1_Numeric();
 
// Alpha-3
// ISO3166_1_Alpha_3::Netherlands
$valueAlpha3 = ISO3166_1_Alpha_3::from('NLD');
$valueAlpha3->value; // 'NLD'
$valueAlpha3->name; // 'Netherlands'
 
// Numeric
// ISO3166_1_Numeric::Netherlands
ISO3166_1_Numeric::from('528');
ISO3166_1_Numeric::fromInt(528);
 
$valueNumeric->value; // '528'
$valueNumeric->name; // 'Netherlands'

This package also includes support for ISO 4217 currency codes:

// Alpha-3
// ISO4217_Alpha3::Euro
$valueAlpha3 = ISO4217_Alpha3::from('EUR');
$valueAlpha3->value; // 'EUR'
$valueAlpha3->name; // 'Euro'
 
// Numeric
// ISO4217_Numeric::Euro
$valueNumeric = ISO4217_Numeric::from('978');
$valueNumeric = ISO4217_Numeric::fromInt(978);
$valueNumeric->value; // '978'
$valueNumeric->name; // 'Euro'

Language support (ISO 639) is another helpful standard enum this package provides:

// ISO639_1_Alpha_2::Dutch_Flemish
$valueAlpha2 = ISO639_1_Alpha_2::from('nl');
$valueAlpha2->value; // 'nl'
$valueAlpha2->name; // 'Dutch_Flemish'

Enums are supported in PHP as of PHP 8.1. Laravel also includes Enum features such as casting Eloquent attributes to PHP "backed" enums and implicit enum route binding that you might want to check out if you're new to Enums.

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

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ORM Caching Package for Laravel

 

LaraCache is an ORM-based package for Laravel to create, update and manage cache items based on model queries. Using this package, you can cache queries that you use heavily throughout your application.

use Mostafaznv\LaraCache\Traits\LaraCache;
 
class Article extends Model
{
    use LaraCache;
 
    public static function cacheEntities(): array
    {
        return [
            CacheEntity::make('list.forever')
                ->cache(function() {
                    return Article::query()->latest()->get();
                }),
 
            CacheEntity::make('latest')
                ->validForRestOfDay()
                ->cache(function() {
                    return Article::query()->latest()->first();
                })
        ];
    }
}

Using the cacheEntities method to define cached queries, Laracache will take care of the rest. To use the cached queries, you'll call the model like the following example:

use Mostafaznv\LaraCache\Facades\LaraCache;
 
 
$cache = Article::cache()->get('latest');
// or
$cache = LaraCache::retrieve(Article::class, 'latest');

With this package, you can control cache with the following features:

• Enable/disable cache
• Update cache manually
• Update all cache entities manually
• delete cache
• Control CacheEntity duration using fluent methods or a ttl() method

I thought the following manual cache update method was neat, refreshing your cache on-the-fly:

Article::cache()->update('latest');
// or
LaraCache::update(Article::class, 'latest');

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

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