developerswarehouse/publish-dates

A simple Laravel package to handle published date scopes.

1.0.3 2018-01-21 16:40 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.0
• laravel/framework: ~5.4

MIT

• Simon Hughes

• package
• laravel
• publishing
• dates

README

I have found with my recent projects, that I'm using the same functionality for publishing content. So, I made a package.

Installation

composer require developerswarehouse/publish-dates

How it works

Say, you're working with an Article model, we might want to use publishing dates to manage the displaying of the content.

On your models, you'll want to add two fields for storing the publish dates.

publish_from(timestamp:nullable)
publish_to(timestamp:nullable)

If you want to change the name of the fields you can change the property in your model.

protected $publishFields = [
    'publish_from',
    'publish_to',
];

Or; overwrite the functions for getPublishedFrom and getPublishedOn with the field name alternatives.

Usage

On your Laravel models, add the trait for publish dates.

use DevelopersWarehouse\PublishDates\PublishDates;

class Article extends Model
{
    use PublishDates;
}

Then, in your controller you can filter the Articles by:

public function index() {
    $articles = Article::published()->get();

    return view('articles.index', compact("articles"));
}

If you want to fetch Articles that are yet to be published, you can use.

$articles = Article::unpublished()->get();

Further Developments

I will be looking to extend the functionality to make this more versatile and something you might want to use.