Reliese Laravel Model Generator aims to speed up the development process of Laravel applications by providing some convenient code-generation capabilities. The tool inspects your database structure, including column names and foreign keys, in order to automatically generate Models that have correctly typed properties, along with any relationships to other Models.
This package expects that you are using Laravel 5.1 or above.
You will need to import the reliese/laravel
package via composer:
It is recommended that this package should only be used on a local environment for security reasons. You should install it via composer using the --dev option like this:
composer require reliese/laravel --dev
Add the models.php
configuration file to your config
directory and clear the config cache:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=reliese-models
# Let's refresh our config cache just in case
php artisan config:clear
Assuming you have already configured your database, you are now all set to go.
php artisan code:models
php artisan code:models --table=users
php artisan code:models --connection=mysql
php artisan code:models --schema=shop
To change the scaffolding behaviour you can make config/models.php
configuration file
fit your database needs. Check it out ;-)
You may want to generate your models as often as you change your database. In order
not to lose your own model changes, you should set base_files
to true
in your config/models.php
.
When you enable this feature your models will inherit their base configurations from base models. You should avoid adding code to your base models, since you will lose all changes when they are generated again.
Note: You will end up with two models for the same table and you may think it is a horrible idea to have two classes for the same thing. However, it is up to you to decide whether this approach gives value to your project :-)
For the time being, this package supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases. Support for other databases are encouraged to be added through pull requests.