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DuplicateToolkit

Duplicate an Eloquent record and everything under it — deciding, per relation, whether to copy it, point at the original, or leave it alone.

📖 Read the documentation →

Every option, a terminal and an engineering plate that draw your model's relation tree in step, and a guide that covers each strategy end to end.

[!CAUTION] Upgrading from 1.x? Read UPGRADE.md first. 1.x leaked relations between model classes in the same request, discovered relations by reading your source files and invoking every public method, and crashed on morphToMany. php artisan duplicate-toolkit:upgrade rewrites most of it; two cases need a human.

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What it does

Eloquent ships replicate(). It copies one row's attributes and hands back an unsaved model. If that is all you need, use it — one method call, no dependency. This package exists for the rows underneath the one you copied:

• Deep duplication of hasOne, hasMany, morphOne, morphMany, belongsToMany and morphToMany, to any depth, with cycle detection.
• Three strategies per relation — copy it, reference the originals, skip it — set on the model, at the call site, or with dot notation several levels down.
• Overrides applied before the insert, so renaming a copy costs one write rather than two, and does not fire the events quietly() just suppressed.
• An old key → new key map for every record created, so nothing downstream has to match duplicated rows by name.
• A dry run that performs every write and rolls back, and four Artisan commands, one of which draws your model's relation tree.

Relations are discovered by reflecting on return types — no source parsing, no model methods invoked, no cache shared between classes.

Requirements

• PHP 8.3+
• Laravel 12 or 13

Installation

Add the HasDuplicates trait to a model and call $model->duplicate(). The service provider is auto-discovered — no migrations, no tables, no assets — and publishing the config is optional, since the defaults duplicate correctly untouched.

Full installation guide →

Artisan commands

Every flag is on the commands page.

Documentation

Testing

CI runs the suite on PHP 8.3 and 8.4 × Laravel 12 and 13, on both prefer-lowest and prefer-stable.

Contributing

Thank you for considering contributing. The guide is in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Security vulnerabilities

Please review SECURITY.md for reporting a vulnerability. Please do not open a public issue.

Credits

Written and maintained by Gabriele Sbaiz.

The 1.x line was a fork of neurony/laravel-duplicate by Neurony Solutions, whose design informed this one. This package builds on Laravel and spatie/laravel-package-tools.

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Disclaimer

This package is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the authors, copyright holders or contributors be liable for any claim, damages or other liability — whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise — arising from, out of or in connection with this package or its use, including without limitation any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, consequential or punitive damages, loss of data, loss of profits, business interruption, or corruption of records.

This package writes to your database. It creates rows, copies relations and, when you ask it to, attaches existing records to new ones. Whoever deploys it is responsible for deciding whether the result is correct for their schema. That responsibility includes, and is not limited to, reviewing what each relation strategy will do before enabling it, running preview() or --dry-run against production-shaped data, keeping backups, understanding that duplicated rows may trigger observers, listeners, queued jobs and search indexing unless quietly() is used, and reading the code yourself before pointing it at data you cannot afford to lose. Nothing here constitutes legal or compliance advice.

Use of this package is entirely at your own risk.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.md. The MIT licence's warranty disclaimer and limitation of liability apply in full, alongside the disclaimer above.