Oatmeal

Oatmeal is a cookie manager for modern, object-oriented PHP development. Oatmeal works both as a standalone package, as well as having built-in integration into Laravel.

Requirements

Oatmeal requires PHP 7.0 and higher.

Installation

Installation is done via composer

composer require elle-the-dev/oatmeal

If we want to integrate into Laravel, we'll additionally want to run

php artisan vendor:publish

This will publish the config file to config/oatmeal.php.

Also for Laravel, if we don't use auto-discovery, we'll need to add OatmealServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php

ElleTheDev\Oatmeal\Providers\OatmealServiceProvider::class,

Usage

Instantiation

Ideally we'll be using Oatmeal with a side of dependency injection, but this is what it looks like to instantiate a new instance on its own.

$oatmeal = new ElleTheDev\Oatmeal\Oatmeal;

Configuration can be passed in via the constructor so we don't need to specify path, domain, https and http-only settings each time we want to set a cookie.

$oatmeal = new ElleTheDev\Oatmeal\Oatmeal([
    'path' => '/',
    'domain' => 'example.com',
    'secure' => false,
    'httpOnly' => true,
]);

In Laravel, the service provider allows for auto-injecting the Oatmeal interface and autoloading the config from config/oatmeal.php

use ElleTheDev\Oatmeal\Contracts\Oatmeal;

class ExampleController extends Controller
{
    public function show(Oatmeal $oatmeal)
    {
    }
}

When injecting in Laravel, Oatmeal will automatically be loaded using the config file config/oatmeal.php.

Setting

We can set a basic cookie with a timeout in minutes. set will also update the $_COOKIE superglobal array with the new cookie value.

$oatmeal->set('name', 'value', 60);

We can also store a cookie with no expiration (note: it technically expires in ~5 years)

$oatmeal->forever('name', 'value');

If we need to change settings before setting a cookie, we can do so through chained method calls.

$oatmeal->setPath('/')
    ->setDomain('example.com')
    ->setSecure(false)
    ->setHttpOnly(true)
    ->set('name', 'value', 60);

Getting

Getting a cookie is as simple as calling get. If the requested cookie does not exist or is expired, get will return null

$value = $oatmeal->get('name');

If we'd like to forget the cookie after getting it, we can pull instead. pull will also update the $_COOKIE superglobal to remove the pulled cookie.

$value = $oatmeal->pull('name');

Deleting

We can delete a cookie using forget

$oatmeal->forget('name');