LaraNotes

A package for laravel that allows you to attach notes to any model of your choosing. This is particularly helpful when you want to add a snippet of information to any of your models.

Use Cases

Some use cases include:

• Noting models with readable messages related to exceptions.
• Noting user log-on/off times.
• Noting an article with the last user to edit it.

Installation

Use Composer to install the package.

1. You can do this by running:

composer require gmory/laranotes

2. Add the service provider to your config/app.php file:

'providers' => [
    ...
    Gmory\Laranotes\LaranotesServiceProvider::class,
];

3. Add the Facade to your config/app.php file:

'Laranote' => Gmory\Laranotes\LaranotesFacade::class,

Usage

Setup Relationships with NotesTrait

First place the NotesTrait on each of the models you wish to attach notes to. This will give those models the appropriate relationships to access their notes.

Adding Notes

To add a note, specify what model you want the note attached to by using attach($model), followed by the note($content, [$unique]) method:

Laranote::attach($user)->note('This user is great!');

You can specify to only add the note if it's unique (ensuring that you don't add a duplicate identical note) by passing true as the second argument in the note() method.

Laranote::attach($user)->note('If this note already exists, do not attach it again.', true);

You can make a note regard a secondary model with regarding($model). This is useful when you want a note attached to a particular model, but you want to know what the note is referencing.

Laranote::attach($user)->regarding($post)->note($user->name . ' edited this post.');

Deleting Notes

You can delete all old notes associated with a model when creating a new note with deleteOld([$attachedToModel], [$regardingModel], [$onlyThoseBelongingToBoth], [$content]).

You must include either an $attachedToModel or a $regardingModel for this function to delete any notes.

You can further expand on the deleting capability by signifying that you only want to delete notes with both the $attachedTo model and the $regardingModel, and/or by specifying the exact $content of the notes you want to delete.

Delete all notes attached to $user

Laranote::deleteOld($user);

Delete all notes regarding $post

Laranote::deleteOld(null, $post));

Delete all notes attached to $user and all notes regarding $post

Laranote::deleteOld($user, $post));

Delete only notes both attached to $user and regarding $post

Laranote::deleteOld($user, $post, true));

Delete only notes both attached to $user and regarding $post that have a content of 'User authored a new post'

Laranote::deleteOld($user, $post, true, 'User authored a new post'));

Retrieving Notes

To retrieve notes from a particular model, you can call the notes() relationship that the NotesTrait granted it.

$user->notes

To retrieve any notes that are regarding a particular model, you can call the regardedBy() relationship that the NotesTrait granted it.

$user->regardedBy

Note Properties

To return a note's content, call the content attribute

$note->content

To return the model the note is attached to, use the noting relationship

$note->noting

To return the model the note is regarding, use the regarding relationship

$note->regarding

License

MIT