Models

• Introduction
• Generate Config
  • Config Name
• Media
• Translatable
  • Migration
  • Model
• Sluggable
• Permissions
  • Create Permissions
  • Apply Permissions
  • Authorize individual Models
• Navigation
• Configuration
  • Index Table, Create & Update Form

Introduction

The main task of an admin panel is to manage data. Litstack offers easy editing and managing of Laravel Eloquent Models. It lets you attach a variety of form fields to model attributes. There are relation fields that to link any available models in any laravel relation, and the ability to attach fields to attributes from pivot tables.

The administrative views of a model include two views. An index view with a table and a detail view in which information for a single model can be displayed or edited. These are configured in litstack in the so-called configs. The ./lit/app/Config/Crud directory contains all configuration files for your CRUD-Models. Each model may have one or more config giles.

Litstack also uses the following Open-Source packages to extend the functionality of Models:

• Astronomic Translatable Used for Model translations.
• Spatie Medialibrary Used for media management.
• Cviebrock Sluggable Used to apply slugs to model attributes.

Generate Config

Assuming you want to generate a crud-config for the Model with the name Post, you can simply generate a crud-config for the model using the lit:crud command.

php artisan lit:crud Post

Executing the command will create all necessary files, unless they already exist:

• The migration for the posts Table
• The model App\Models\Post
• The config ./lit/app/Config/Crud/PostConfig
• The controller ./lit/app/Http/Controllers/Crud/PostController

Now the config can be added to the navigation so it can be reached via your admin panel.

use Lit\Config\Crud\PostConfig;

$nav->preset(PostConfig::class, ['icon' => fa('newspaper')]),

Config Name

Since you are able to create multiple configurations for the same model, in some cases you may want to use a config name that does not begin with the class name of the model. The name of the config can be given as the second argument to the lit:crud command:

php artisan lit:crud User StargazerConfig

Media

If your model should have media like pictures or pdfs, it needs to implement the Spatie\MediaLibrary\HasMedia interface and use the trait Ignite\Crud\Models\Traits\HasMedia, as shown in the following example:

namespace App\Models;

use Ignite\Crud\Models\Traits\HasMedia;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\HasMedia as HasMediaContract;

class Test extends Model implements HasMediaContract
{
    use HasMedia;

    // ...
}

Litstack generates the a Model with the needed requirements by adding the --media (or short -m) options to the lit:crud command:

php artisan lit:crud Post -m

Now you can add images to your model via the image field.

Translatable

The litstack form fields make managing translatable content easier than ever:

$form->input('title')->translatable();

To use translatable fields in models the correct configuration is required, which is done from within the migration and the model, as described below.

Migration

In the migration a second table must be created, which contains the translatable fields. For posts this would be post_translations. All required columns can be added to the translations table by using translates with the name of the table to be translated. In the following example the column title is translatable for the posts table.

Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->bigIncrements('id');
    $table->timestamps();
});
Schema::create('post_translations', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->translates('posts');
    $table->string('title');
});

Model

Your translation model, in our case post, needs the interface Astrotomic\Translatable\Contracts\Translatable and the trait Ignite\Crud\Models\Traits\Translatable. Furthermore, all translatable attributes are specified in the translatedAttributes property.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Astrotomic\Translatable\Contracts\Translatable as TranslatableContract;
use Ignite\Crud\Models\Traits\Translatable;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Post extends Model implements TranslatableContract
{
    use Translatable;

    /**
     * The attributes to be translated.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    public $translatedAttributes = ['title'];

    /**
     * The relationships that should always be loaded.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $with = ['translations'];
}

Furthermore, a model for the translation table is needed. Translation Models are generated into app/Models/Translations. In the translation model all mass assignable attributes of the translation table are specified:

<?php

namespace App\Models\Translations;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class PostTranslation extends Model
{
    /**
     * Wether the model uses the default timestamp columns.
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    public $timestamps = false;

    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = ['title'];
}

Displaying Translated Attributes

The attribute title can now be output via the model post, the value is displayed depending on the set locale:

app()->setLocale('en');
echo $post->title; // Echo's englisch value.

app()->setLocale('de');
echo $post->title; // Echo's german value.

Sluggable

Models that should have one or more slugs need the trait Ignite\Crud\Models\Traits\Sluggable. The trait is automatically added to the mode when it is created by the command lit:crud with the option --slug (short -s):

php artisan lit:crud Post -s

The sluggable method of the model specifies which attributes contain slugs and from which attributes the slugs are built. In the following example the column slug contains the slug that is built from the value of title.

namespace App\Models;

use Ignite\Crud\Models\Traits\Sluggable;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Post extends Model
{
    use Sluggable;

    protected $fillable = ['title'];

    public function sluggable()
    {
        return [
            'slug' => [
                'source' => 'title',
            ],
        ];
    }
}

Permissions

Litstack brings not only a super simple permission manager, but also a simple way to create permissions and bind them to crud models. The desired permissions just need to be added to the migration *_make_permissions.php and will be added to the database by executing the lit:permissions command.

Create Permissions

So let's create crud permissions for our posts example. So we add posts to the crudPermissionGroups property. This will create the following permissions:

• create posts
• read posts
• update posts
• delete posts

protected $crudPermissionGroups = [
    // ...

    'posts'
];

and execute the command:

php artisan lit:permissions

Apply Permissions

The controller that comes with the crud contains the authozire method. The second parameter is the operation to be executed. So now we can check if the authenticated user has the permission to operate on the group posts by returning $user->can("{$operation} posts"):

<?php

namespace Lit\Http\Controllers\Crud;

use Ignite\Crud\Controllers\CrudController;
use Lit\Models\User;

class PostController extends CrudController
{
    /**
     * Authorize request for authenticated lit-user and permission operation.
     * Operations: create, read, update, delete.
     *
     * @param  User   $user
     * @param  string $operation
     * @param  int    $id
     * @return bool
     */
    public function authorize(User $user, string $operation, $id = null): bool
    {
        return $user->can("{$operation} posts");
    }
}

Authorize individual Models

You may want to authorize individual models. This can be achieved by adding the initial query in the query method. The following example shows how models can be hidden by users who did not create them:

class PostController
{
    public function query($query)
    {
        $query->where('created_by', lit_user()->id);
    }
}

Navigation

Add the navigation entry by adding the config namespace preset to your navigation.

$nav->preset(PostConfig::class, ['icon' => fa('newspaper')]),

Configuration

Define the CRUD-Config in the created config file: Config/Crud/{model}Config.php. First the model and the controller must be specified in the config:

use App\Models\Article;
use Lit\Controllers\Crud\ArticleController;
use Ignite\Crud\Config\CrudConfig;

class ArticleConfig extends CrudConfig
{
    /**
     * Model class.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    public $model = Article::class;

    /**
     * Controller class.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    public $controller = ArticleController::class;
}

Index Table, Create & Update Form

Next, the configuration for the Index Table and the create and update Form can be adjusted.