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Laravel Settings is PHP package for laravel for handling the generic settings of your application.

With Laravel Settings you can store any type of values in the database.

Installation

composer require danielefavi/laravel-settings

Usage

Once the package is installed you can get the Setting model instace from the app service provider like this app('settings') or just call settings() (that is wrapper around app('settings')).

Setting a value

settings()->set('code_langs', ['php', 'javascript', 'python']);

// this does the same of the previous line of code
app('settings')->set('max_connection', 100);

Getting a value

$codeLangs = settings()->get('code_langs');
// codeLangs = Array( [0] => php [1] => javascript [2] => python )

$maxConn = settings()->get('max_connection');

When getting a function you can specify a default value as well.

// if the setting max_connection is not found then it returns 999
$maxConn = settings()->get('max_connection', 999);

Increment a value

settings()->set('counter', 10); // the counter is 10

settings()->inc('counter'); // incrementing the counter by 1, so the counter is 11
settings()->inc('counter'); // incrementing the counter by 1, so the counter is 12
settings()->inc('counter', 3); // incrementing the counter by 3, so the counter is 15

$counter = settings()->get('counter'); // counter == 15

Decrementing a value

settings()->set('counter', 10); // the counter is 10

settings()->dec('counter'); // decrementing the counter by 1, so the counter is 9
settings()->dec('counter', 4); // decrementing the counter by 5, so the counter is 5

$counter = settings()->get('counter'); // counter == 5

Appending (or attaching) a value to a setting

With the attach method you can add values to an existing array or string. If the array or string does not exist then it will be created.

Appending values to an array.

settings()->attach('tags', ['tag-1', 'tag-2']); // attaching (or creating) the array
settings()->attach('tags', ['tag-3', 'tag-4']); // attaching an array to the array
settings()->attach('tags', 'tag-5'); // attaching a value to the array

$tags = settings()->get('tags');
// tags contains tag-1, tag-2, tag-3, tag-4, tag-5

Appending values to a string.

settings()->set('names', 'John');
settings()->attach('names', ',Doe,Wan');
settings()->attach('names', ',Clare');

$names = settings()->get('names'); // John,Doe,Wan,Clare