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A simple package for making Laravel Eloquent models 'publishable'. Not published models are excluded from queries by default but can be queried via extra scope.

This package allows easy publishing and unpublishing of models by combining scopes and macros.

The package supports Laravel 8 through 13.

How does it work?

The package provides a trait Publishable for your Eloquent model. Your database schema has to have a published_at datetime column so that the trait can read and write it. By reading this column the package can determine which models already have been published and provide the requested models.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require lambdadigamma/laravel-publishable

Usage

Migrations

The Publishable trait works similarly to Laravel's SoftDeletes trait. This package provides a macro for Laravel's Migration Builder. Just use the publishedAt macro in your migration to get started:

Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    $table->string('title');
    $table->text('text');
    $table->timestamps();
    $table->publishedAt(); // Macro provided by the package
});

Eloquent Model Trait

After providing a published_at timestamp on your model, you can use the Publishable trait on your Eloquent model:

namespace App\Models;

use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use \LaravelPublishable\Publishable;

class Post extends Model {
    use Publishable;
    ...
}

Extensions

The extensions shipped with this trait include; publish, unpublish, withNotPublished, withoutPublished, onlyPublished and can be used accordingly:

$post = Post::first();
$post->publish();
$post->publishAt(now()->addHour(1));
$post->scheduleFor(new Carbon('2021-04-01 10:00:00'));
$post->unpublish();

$postsWithNotPublished = Post::query()->withNotPublished();
$onlyNotPublishedPosts = Post::query()->onlyNotPublished();

When not specifing any additional scopes, all not published models are excluded from the query by default (withoutNotPublished) to prevent leaks of not published data.

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email github@lambdadigamma.com instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Lennart Fischer

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.