README

Installation

Install using composer:

 composer require geeky/historical-model --dev

About

This package created for helping you to create a historical model/data for any model/data you want, so one of the solutions of creating a historical data os by creating a history table for the basic table, so if we have a table called employees with this columns:

  - id
  - name
  - salary
  - address
  - created_at
  - updated_at

and we want to make save our data in another place in case if the employee changes his address or his salary for example, like if the salary of an employee is 500$ then he updated the salary to be 1000$ then 1500$ so we want to save all of these data to have a historical data to know when the employee was 1000$ or something else, Our history table schema will be:

  - id - primary key. Detail/historical id
  - master_id - for example in this case called 'employee_id', this is the FK to the Master record
  - start_datetime - timestamp indicating the start of that database row
  - end_datetime - timestamp indicating the end of that database row
  - status control - single char column indicated status of the row. 'c' indicates current, NULL or 'a' would be historical/archived. We only use this because we can't index on END_DATETIME being NULL
  - created_by_id - stores the ID of the account that caused the row to be created
  - the_columns_you_choose_to_log - stores the actual data  

Usage

you can create the historical model/data just by a very easy command

• php artisan make:history-model

then you will be asked what model you want to make it historical,

and the package will automatically get your columns and ask you column column with y/n if you to log it, and hola you will get your model and your migration file ready to migrate.

Important

You should use the Geeky\Historical\Concerns\Historical trait file in your base model

Todo List

• Add a command to sync the base data from the base table to the historical table
• Add the trait automatically to the base model
• Remove the timestamps() from the migration file