scaffold

Scaffolding for Laravel 4

Be warned: This is a work in progress. Nothing actually works yet!

Installation

Add nils-werner/scaffold as a requirement to composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "nils-werner/scaffold": "dev-master"
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
        "type":"vcs",
        "url":"https://github.com/nils-werner/laravel-scaffold"
        }
    ]
}

Then run composer update or composer install

Next step is to tell laravel to load the serviceprovider. In app/config/app.php add

  // ...
  'NilsWerner\Scaffold\ScaffoldServiceProvider'
  // ...

to the providers array.

Concept

Most of the code here is just a package wrapper so the important components don't have to be in /app:

• routes.php
• controllers/ScaffoldController.php
• views/*.blade.php

It's in ScaffoldController where most of the magic happens:

1. Deduct the model name from the URL and see if it exists
2. Fetch the schema of the table associated with the model
3. Process and display the data and the schema in a table or a form

Configuration

Each Model can configure an array of columns and fields it wants to show in the scaffolding view:

public $columns = ['realname'];
public $fields = ['realname', 'email'];

Additionally, you can use Eloquent ORM getters and setters to manipulate the input received from the form, i.e. Hash::make() a password when saving and only display "****" when editing:

public function setPasswordAttribute($value)
{
    if($value != "****")
    $this->attributes['password'] = Hash::make($value);
}

public function getPasswordAttribute($value)
{
    return "****";
}