Laravel Settings

This package will allow managing of laravel config variables, from the database.

Requirements

• Laravel 5.1+
• Cache with tags support, e.g redis, memcached, etc

Installation

• Install the package from composer

composer install leantony/laravel_settings:dev-master

• Add the service provider to app.php

Leantony\Settings\Providers\ServiceProvider::class

• Publish configuration, and migration

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Leantony\Settings\Providers\ServiceProvider" --tag="config"

This will copy app_settings.php into the config directory

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Leantony\Settings\Providers\ServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"

This will copy the migrations over to your migrations

By default, only the values in app.php and mail.php will be included in the database. So be sure to read through and edit the file app_settings.php file, as you wish

• Run migrations php artisan migrate

• You're done!

Usage

The installation on its own does not persist the config values to the database. To persist the values from config files into the database, the package provides the following commands.

php artisan manage:settings --setup

Will persist the config values into the database according to the setup defined in app_settings.php

php artisan manage:settings --bind

Will bind settings in the database to those in actual laravel config. Hence settings in the database can also be normally accessed using the config() helper.

To ensure that the above is done automatically at boot, add the following method to your AppServiceProvider boot method.

    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
      // this method will ensure that settings persisted in the database are always
      // loaded into laravel config, at runtime
      app('settings')->replaceLoaded();
      
      // to sensure that the settings are refreshed when the database values change, add this method
      Leantony\Settings\SettingsHelper::observe();
    }

Fetching settings

Apart from using laravel config helper once binding is done, the package provides a helper method settings(). Use it as shown below

If no argument is provided to the method, an instance of Leantony\Settings\SettingsHelper is returned

To fetch a setting from the database, with a key of environment, and category of app, you will append the category to the key value (camelcased), as follows

settings()->appEnvironment

You can also do it like this

settings('app.environment')

To fetch all settings by a category:

settings('app')

// or

settings()->getByCategory('app')