Pingpong Labs

Laravel 5 Generators

Installation

composer require "pingpong/generators:~2.1"

Next, register new service provider to providers array in config/app.php.

'Pingpong\Generators\GeneratorsServiceProvider'

Done.

Artisan Commands

In this package, there are many CLI commands that are useful to speed up you in creating web applications with Laravel. Some commands may already be familiar, such as the command to create a controller or model. However we are aware, sometimes we want everything instantly. Although not all of them can be so.

Generate a new controller

Generate a basic controller.

php artisan generate:controller UsersController

Generate a resource controller.

php artisan generate:controller UsersController --resource
# OR
php artisan generate:controller UsersController -r

Generate a scaffolded controller.

php artisan generate:controller UsersController --scaffold
# OR
php artisan generate:controller UsersController -s

Generate a new model

php artisan generate:model User

php artisan generate:model Users/User

Generate a new console

php artisan generate:console FooCommand

php artisan generate:console FooCommand --command="foo" --description="a console"

Generate a new form request

php artisan generate:request CreateUserRequest

You can also specify rules.

php artisan generate:request CreateUserRequest --rules="username:required, email:required,email"

php artisan generate:request CreateUserRequest --rules="username:unique(users;username)"

Generate a new migration

Generate a basic migration.

php artisan generate:migration create_users_table

Generate a migration with specify the fields.

php artisan generate:migration create_users_table --fields="username:string, email:string:unique, remember_token, soft_delete"

Add new field to an existing table.

php artisan generate:migration add_password_to_users_table --fields="password:string"

Remove column from the specified table.

php artisan generate:migration remove_password_from_users_table --fields="password:string"

Drop the specified table.

php artisan generate:migration drop_users_table

Generate a pivot

php artisan generate:pivot users roles

Generate a seed class

Create a basic database seeder class.

php artisan generate:seed users

Generate a view

Basic usage.

php artisan generate:view index

Auto generate folder.

php artisan generate:view users/index

Generate a plain/blank view.

php artisan generate:view users/index --plain

Generate a master view.

php artisan generate:view layouts/master --master

Generate a scaffold resource

For some cases, we may need to be faster in making resource. Let's say we're making a CRUD. First we have to create a migration, then the controller, and then the model and the others stuffs. If we use the commands to make it one by one, it is inefficient and will take a long time. That is where the "generate:scaffold" useful. With this command, we can create a CRUD with just one command.

php artisan generate:scaffold task --fields="name:string, description:text"

From the example above we can see how easy it is to create a crud just one command. The first parameter is the name of the entity being in the singular convention. For example, if you want to create users CRUD, you just need to use user. You have to follow singular convention.

php artisan generate:scaffold user

You can also specify the option prefix for this command. It is used as a prefix controller path , views, and also the route.

php artisan generate:scaffold task --fields="name:string, description:text" --prefix=admin

Modifying Templates

This feature is added since version 2.1.2.

You may also modify the generator templates (or stubs) as you want. To modify templates, you need to publish them first. You can publish the templates by running this following command.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Pingpong\Generators\GeneratorsServiceProvider"

This command will publish the templates to resources/pingpong/generators/stubs path.

You may also change the template path to other path by changing template_path value from generators config.

// File: config/generators.php
return [
	'template_path' => base_path('resources/pingpong/generators/stubs')
];