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Package orbit
Short Description A flat-file database driver for Eloquent.
License MIT
Informations about the package orbit
Orbit is a flat-file driver for Laravel Eloquent. It allows you to replace your generic database with real files that you can manipulate using the methods you're familiar with.
Installation
To install Orbit, run the following command in your project:
Usage
To begin using Orbit, create a Laravel model and use the Orbit\Concerns\Orbital
trait.
The Orbital
trait is responsible for hooking into the Eloquent lifecycle and ensuring all of your interactions are handled correctly.
Defining the Schema
Just like a database migration, you need to define the different pieces of data that your Orbit model can have. Add a public static function schema(Blueprint $table)
method to your model.
This method will need to accept an instance of Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint
, just like a migration.
If some of your data is optional, make sure the corresponding column is
nullable
.
Storing content
By default, all content is stored inside of a content
folder in the root of your application. If you wish to change this, publish the orbit.php
configuration file and change the orbit.paths.content
option.
Orbit will transform the base name of your model into a pluralized snake-cased string and use that as the main folder name, e.g. Post
-> content/posts
, PostCategory
=> content/post_categories
.
🚨 Changing the name of a model will prevent Orbit from finding any existing records in the old folder. If you wish to change the name of the folder, overwrite the
public static function getOrbitalName
method on your model class and return the old name instead.
Any time you call Model::create()
, Model::update
or Model::delete
, Orbit will intercept those calls and forward to the necessary driver method. The driver is then responsible for performing the necessary file system calls.
Changing the primary key
Just like a normal Eloquent model, you can change the primary key of your Orbit model. Overwrite the Model::getKeyName
method and return the name of your new model.
If your model's primary key (the key you defined in
getKeyName
) doesn't need to automatically increment, you should either definepublic $incrementing = false
on the model or overwrite thegetIncrementing
method.
Standard Orbit drivers will respect the new key name and use that when creating, updating and deleting files on disk, e.g. a Post
with the slug hello-world
will write to the content/posts/hello-world.md
file.
🚨 Changing the key for a model after records already exist can cause damage. Be sure to rename your files afterwards so that Orbit doesn't create duplicate content.
Soft Deletes
Since Orbit needs to update files on disk when your model is updated, the standard Eloquent SoftDeletes
trait doesn't quite work. If you want to add soft delete support to your Orbit model, you can instead use the Orbit\Concerns\SoftDeletes
trait.
This trait uses the Eloquent one under-the-hood, so you can still access all of your normal SoftDeletes
methods, including isForceDeleting()
and forceDelete()
.
The Orbit version adds in the necessary hooks to perform file system operations as well as ensure you don't completely delete your content.
Validation Rules
When dealing with validation rules that check against a database like exists
and unique
, you should use the fully-qualified namespace (FQN) of the model instead of the table name.
This is because Orbit runs on a separate database connection - using the FQN will allow Laravel to correctly resolve the qualified table name.
Testing
As previously mentioned in the Validation Rules section, Orbit operates on a custom connection called orbit
. This means that Laravel's database testing utilities will work, as long as you specify the connection name.
Drivers
Orbit is a driver-based package, making it very easy to change the storage format of your data.
Out of the box, Orbit provides the following drivers:
md
->Orbit\Drivers\Markdown
json
=>Orbit\Drivers\Json
yaml
=>Orbit\Drivers\Yaml
md
This is a Markdown that is capable of parsing Markdown files, as well as YAML front-matter.
When Orbit loads files using this driver, it will map each front-matter key into a column in your models schema
.
By default, the Markdown driver will also add a TEXT content
column to your schema. This is used to store the Markdown body from the file.
💡 If you wish to customise the name of the
content
column, you can use theMarkdown::contentColumn()
method and provide a new column name. This is applied to all models that use theMarkdown
driver.
json
This is a JSON driver that is capable of parsing .json
files. Each key in the file is mapped to a column in your schema.
yaml
This is a YAML driver that is capable of parsing .yml
files. Each key in the file is mapped to a column in your schema.
Registering drivers
You can register custom Orbit drivers by using the Orbit::extend
method. You should call this method from the boot
method in a ServiceProvider
.
All drivers must implement the Orbit\Contracts\Driver
contract, or extend the Orbit\Drivers\FileDriver
class. This enforces drivers to have at least 4 methods:
Here is what each method is used for:
shouldRestoreCache
- used to determine if the file cache should be updated.save
- used to persist model changes to a file on disk, or create a new file.delete
- used to delete an existing file on diskall
- used to retrieve all records from disk and cache.
Extending FileDriver
Extending the Orbit\Drivers\FileDriver
class is useful when you want some of the heavy lifting done for you. To work with this base class, you should do the following:
- Implement an
extension(): string
method that returns the file extension as a string, i.e.return 'md'
forMarkdown
. - Implement a
dumpContent(Model $model): string
method. This method should return the updated content for the file. - Implement a
parseContent(SplFileInfo $file): array
method. This method should return an array ofkey => value
pairs, where eachkey
is a column in theschema
.
Changing drivers
If you wish to use a different driver for one of your models, you can add a public static $driver
property to your model and set the value to the name of a driver.
Driver names are determined when they are registered with Orbit. You should always use the string name of the driver instead of the fully-qualified class name.
Disabling Orbit
If you have a model that uses the Orbital
trait and would like to temporarily disable Orbit's functionality, you can override the enableOrbit(): bool
method on your model:
All versions of orbit with dependencies
ext-json Version *
illuminate/console Version *
illuminate/database Version ^11.0
illuminate/events Version ^11.0
illuminate/support Version ^11.0
spatie/laravel-package-tools Version ^1.16
spatie/yaml-front-matter Version ^2.0
symfony/yaml Version ^7.0