Laracogs

Laracogs - A handful of tools for Rapid Laravel Development

This is a set of tools to help speed up development of Laravel apps. You can start an app with various parts prewritten (Users, User Meta, Roles, Teams). And it comes with a powerful FormMaker which can generate form content from tables, and objects. It can generate epic CRUD prototypes rapidly with full testing scripts prepared for you, requiring very little editing. It also provides an elegant Cryptography tool which is URL friendly. Finally it brings along some friends with LaravelCollective as a vendor.

Author(s):

• Matt Lantz (@mattylantz, matt at yabhq dot com)
• Chris Blackwell (@chrisblackwell, chris at yabhq dot com)

Website

http://laracogs.com

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Detailed Documentation

Please consult the documentation here: http://laracogs.com/docs

General Requirements

1. PHP 5.6+
2. OpenSSL

Compatibility and Support

Installation

Start a new Laravel project:

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name

Then run the following to add Laracogs

composer require "yab/laracogs"

Add this to the config/app.php in the providers array:

Yab\Laracogs\LaracogsProvider::class,

After these few steps you have the following tools at your fingertips:

CrudMaker

The CrudMaker commands build a CRUD for a table with unit tests! Use the table-crud for tables that already exist.

php artisan crudmaker:new {name or snake_names} {--api} {--ui=bootstrap|semantic} {--serviceOnly} {--withFacade} {--migration} {--schema=} {--relationships=}
php artisan crudmaker:table {name or snake_names} {--api} {--ui=bootstrap|semantic} {--serviceOnly} {--withFacade}

Docs

The docs can prepare documentation for business rules or prepare your app for API doc generation with Sami.

php artisan laracogs:docs {action} {name=null} {version=null}

Facades/ Services

Laracogs provides a handful of easy to use tools outside of the app starter kit, and CrudMaker including:

Crypto

Some simple cryptography tools including a random UUID generator.

Crypto::uuid();
Crypto::encrypt('string');
Crypto::decrypt('enc-string');
Crypto::sharable()->encrypt('string');
Crypto::sharable()->decrypt('enc-string');

FormMaker

Build forms from as little as one line of code.

FormMaker::fromTable($table, $columns = null, $class = 'form-control', $view = null, $reformatted = true, $populated = false, $idAndTimestamps = false)
FormMaker::fromObject($object, $columns = null, $view = null, $class = 'form-control', $populated = true, $reformatted = false, $idAndTimestamps = false)
FormMaker::fromArray($array, $columns = null, $view = null, $class = 'form-control', $populated = true, $reformatted = false, $idAndTimestamps = false)

InputMaker

Looking to make some inputs? Look no further.

InputMaker::label($name, $attributes = [])
InputMaker::create($name, $field, $object = null, $class = 'form-control', $reformatted = false, $populated = false)

Cerebrum

A set of traits which can be added to service or models to give your app extra power!

Memory // Magical caching
Linguistics // Basic NLP

Laratest

Looking to write tests for your code? Generate test structures with this handy command.

php artisan laratest:unit {path to file}
php artisan laratest:route {route}

Kits

You may also want to utilize our boilerplate generators, these tools will prepare your apps with starter kits, admins, user settings, notifications, billing integration, API access, Social Media logins, Bootstrap styles and more!
Kits are only compatible with the latest version of Laravel!

Starter

In order to make use of the starter kit you will need to modify some files. Check out the modifications below:

Add the following to your app/Http/Kernel.php $routeMiddleware array.

'admin' => \App\Http\Middleware\Admin::class,
'permissions' => \App\Http\Middleware\Permissions::class,
'roles' => \App\Http\Middleware\Roles::class,
'active' => \App\Http\Middleware\Active::class,

If you want to opt out of having your users confirm their email address, simply remove the active from the middleware in the routes files. You may also wish to remove the email notification from UserService.

With the roles middleware you can specify which roles are applicable separating them with pipes: ['middleware' => ['roles:admin|moderator|member']] The permissions middleware allows you to specify which permissions (which are bound to roles) are applicable to a route separating them with pipes: ['middleware' => ['permissions:admin|regular']]

Update the App\User::class in: 'config/auth.php' and 'database/factories/ModelFactory.php' to this:

App\Models\User::class

Add the following to 'app/Providers/AuthServiceProvider.php' in the boot method

Gate::define('admin', function ($user) {
    return ($user->roles->first()->name === 'admin');
});

Gate::define('team-member', function ($user, $team) {
    return ($user->teams->find($team->id));
});

Gate::define('permission', function ($user, $permission) {
    return $user->hasPermission($permission);
});

Gate::define('role', function ($user, $role) {
    return ($user->hasRole($role));
});

Add the following to 'app/Providers/EventServiceProvider.php' in the $listen property

'App\Events\UserRegisteredEmail' => [
    'App\Listeners\UserRegisteredEmailListener',
],

You will want to create an sqlite memory test database in the config/database.php

'testing' => [
    'driver'   => 'sqlite',
    'database' => ':memory:',
    'prefix'   => '',
],

Add the following line to the 'phpunit.xml' file

<env name="DB_CONNECTION" value="testing"/>
<env name="MAIL_DRIVER" value="log"/>

Regarding Email Activation

The Starter kit has an email activation component added to the app to ensure your users have validated their email address. You can disable it by removing the active middleware from the web routes. You will also have to disable the Notification but it won't cause any problems if you remove the email activation.

For Laravel 5.2

You will also need to set the location of the email for password reminders. (config/auth.php - at the bottom)

'passwords' => [
    'users' => [
        'provider' => 'users',
        'email' => 'emails.password',
        'table' => 'password_resets',
        'expire' => 60,
    ],
],

Things to note

You may try and start quickly by testing the registration but please make sure your app's email is configured or it will throw an exception. You can do this in the .env file easily by setting it to 'log' temporarily

MAIL_DRIVER=log

Last Steps

Once you've added in all these parts you will want to run the starter command!

php artisan laracogs:starter

Then you'll need to migrate to add in the users, user meta, roles and teams tables. The seeding is run to set the initial roles for your application.

composer dump
php artisan migrate --seed

To login simply enter:

[email protected]
admin

Once you get the starter kit running you can register and login to your app. You can then you can visit the settings section of the app and set your role to admin to take full control of the app. Now its time for more boilerplate generators!

Bootstrap

Bootstrap prepares your application with bootstrap as a view/ css framework.

php artisan laracogs:bootstrap

Semantic

Semantic prepares your application with semantic-ui as a view/ css framework.

php artisan laracogs:semantic

Features

A powerful and remarkably handy feature management system.

php artisan laracogs:feature

Activity

The ability to track user activities and provide a layer of accountability in your app.

php artisan laracogs:activity

Socialite

Socialite prepares your application with a socialite system, with GitHub as the example:

php artisan laracogs:socialite

API

Api prepares your application with an API system using JWT (logins, and user profile):

php artisan laracogs:api

Please note that Billing and Notifications are only set for use with bootstrap

Notifications

Notifications prepares your application with a notification system.

php artisan laracogs:notifications

Billing

The billing command sets up your app with Laravel's cashier - it prepares the whole app to handle subscriptions with a policy structure.

php artisan laracogs:billing

Requires

composer require laravel/cashier

You may want to add this line to your navigation:

<li><a href="{!! url('user/billing/details') !!}"><span class="fa fa-dollar"></span> Billing</a></li>

Add this to the app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php in the mapWebRoutes method. It will look like: ->group(base_path('routes/web.php')); So you need to change it to resemble this:

->group(function () {
    require base_path('routes/web.php');
    require base_path('routes/billing.php');
});

This to the .env:

SUBSCRIPTION=basic
STRIPE_SECRET=public-key
STRIPE_PUBLIC=secret-key

This to the app/Providers/AuthServiceProvider.php in the boot method:

Gate::define('access-billing', function ($user) {
    return ($user->meta->subscribed('main') && is_null($user->meta->subscription('main')->endDate));
});

For the config/services.php you will want yours to resemble:

'stripe' => [
    'model'  => App\Models\UserMeta::class,
    'key'    => env('STRIPE_PUBLIC'),
    'secret' => env('STRIPE_SECRET'),
],

Finally run migrate to add the subscrptions and bind them to the user meta:

php artisan migrate

You will also want to update your gulpfile.js to include the card.js, and subscription.js

elixir(function(mix) {
    mix.scripts([
        'app.js',
        'card.js',
        'subscription.js'
    ]);
});

Accounts (Billing Only)

Plans

This is the basic config for config/plans.php. It sets the default subscription name, as well as the plans and the rules pertaining to them.

'subscription_name' => 'main',
'plans' => [
    'basic' => [
        'access' => [
            'some name'
        ],
        'limits' => [
            'Model\Namespace' => 5,
            'pivot_table' => 1
        ],
        'credits' => [
            'column' => 'credits_spent',
            'limit' => 10
        ],
        'custom' => [
            'anything' => 'anything'
        ],
    ],
]

Service

The service provides extra tools for handling restrictions in your application based on the plan the user subscribed to.

getClause('box_limit');
canAccess('area_51');
cannotAccess('restricted_area');
getLimit('team_user');
withinLimit('App\Models\Team');
creditsAvailable('App\Models\Team');
creditsUsed('App\Models\Team');
currentBillingCycle()->withinLimit('App\Models\Team');
clause('custom', function($user, $subscription, $clause, $query) {
    // do your own logic!
    // model is optional if you dont provide it the query is null - otherwise it's a query builder
}, 'App\Models\Team');

License

Laracogs is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license

Bug Reporting and Feature Requests

Please add as many details as possible regarding submission of issues and feature requests

Disclaimer

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.