library names

acacha/names

Provides alternative names to Laravel models.

Provides alternatives names to Laravel 5 models., _(*1)

Installation

composer require acacha/names

Migrations

Run:, _(*2)

php artisan migrate

To add names table to you Laravel project. Is not necessary to modify existent Model tables to add alternatives names to an existing model., _(*3)

Use

Basically this package uses Laravel polymorphic-relations (1) to add alternative names to models., _(*4)

You only have to add trait Acacha\Names\Nameable to you model:, _(*5)

class MyModel extends Model {
    use Nameable;    
    ...
}

This will add polimorphic relation names() that gives access to alternative model names:, _(*6)

mymodel->names();

Specifications

Table names, _(*7)

Columns: - id - shortname: Model/resource short name. - fullname: resource fullname. - nickname: resource nickname. - code: resource code. - description: resource description. - notes: resource notes. - nameable_type : nameable object class - nameable_id: nameable object id, _(*8)