PHP code example of movor / laravel-custom-casts

    
        
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require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

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movor / laravel-custom-casts example snippets

// File: app/User.php

namespace App;

use App\CustomCasts\ImageCast;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Movor\LaravelCustomCasts\HasCustomCasts;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable, HasCustomCasts;

    protected $fillable = [
        'name', 'email', 'password', 'image'
    ];

    protected $hidden = [
        'password', 'remember_token'
    ];

    protected $casts = [
        'image' => ImageCast::class
    ];
}

// ...

// File: app/CustomCasts/ImageCast.php

namespace App\CustomCasts;

use Movor\LaravelCustomCasts\CustomCastBase;
use Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile;

class ImageCast extends CustomCastBase
{
    public function setAttribute($file)
    {
        // Define storage folder
        // (relative to "storage/app" folder in Laravel project)
        // Don't forget to create it !!!
        $storageDir = 'images';

        // Generate random image name
        $filename = str_random() . '.' . $file->extension();

        // Save image to predefined folder
        $file->storeAs($storageDir, $filename);

        // This will be stored in db field: "image"
        return $storageDir . '/' . $filename;
    }
}

// File: app/Http/Controllers/UserController.php

// ...

protected function create(Request $request)
{
    User::create([
        'name' => $request->name,
        'email' => $request->email,
        'password' => bcrypt($request->password),
        // Past the whole Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile object,
        // we'll handle it in our ImageCast class
        'image' => $request->file('image')
    ]);
}

// ...

// File: app/CustomCasts/ImageCast.php

// Add at the top
use Storage;

// ...

// This method will be triggered after model has been deleted
public function deleted()
{
    // We can access underlying model with $this->model
    // and attribute name that is being casted with $this->attribute

    // Retrieve image path and delete it from the disk
    $imagePath = $this->model->image;
    Storage::delete($imagePath);
}

// ...