Open tabacitu opened 3 years ago
I think if you don't need to much precision, google or algolia are ok.
Once I had to create a system to support the Portuguese administrative regions, District > County > Parish (I believe many countries use a similar model). And I needed that clear division between administrative regions, to then query my models over that.
It was painful back then 😬 nowadays, this would have been much easier, if I used fetch operations, and the new relationship
field with the dependencies
attribute.
In my case, Country > State > City field wouldn't have been enough, if we are going to create a plugin for this we may take into account that many country administrative regions are different.
What I think it would be a possible option, and very likely to fit everyone's needs, is to create some king of relationship_dependency
. Where the developer could setup his own Models.
[
'type' => "relationship_dependency",
'name' => 'address',
'entities' => [
App\Models\Country::class,
App\Models\State::class => 'country', // 'country' is the method defining the relationship to the previous model
App\Models\City::class => 'state', // 'state' is the method defining the relationship to the previous model
],
]
And this would create 3 selects depending on each other.
Again, I think this is not that hard to achieve with the current relationship
field using the dependencies
attribute.
Yeah... relationship_dependency
sounds like a good name for it. Hopefully it doesn't go the way of checklist_dependency
😂
This SO question made me realise it's not that easy to create this inside Backpack. I mean sure we have a way, but it's not dead-simple, where you just make one call that adds these 3 fields, with the entire database of Countries, States and Cities to it. And... it could be... 😂
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64477629/how-to-the-dependent-dropdown-in-laravel-backpack-of-country-state-and-city
Don't know how many people would be interested in this though. Do people still use this way of adding location information, or does everybody use the
address_google
oraddress_algolia
-like fields?Food for thought.