vcoder7/ltools

Laravel helper tools

1.0.2 2026-01-14 12:55 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2|^8.3|^8.4
• illuminate/console: ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0
• illuminate/database: ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0
• illuminate/support: ^10.0|^11.0|^12.0

Requires (Dev)

• laravel/pint: ^1.27
• mockery/mockery: ^1.6
• orchestra/testbench: ^9.0|^10.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.0|^12.0

MIT

• Mladen Vukovic

• php
• command
• commands
• laravel
• artisan

README

Laravel helper tools

• Cache clear command
• Automatic uuid field value generation
• Str initials helper (macro)
• Changelog integration

Installation

composer require vcoder7/ltools

Clear application, route, config and view cache

php artisan ltools:cache-clear

Automatic uuid field value generation

1. Add to your migration $table->uuid()->unique();
2. Add to your model:

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Vcoder7\Ltools\Http\Traits\CreateUuidTrait;

class MyModel extends Model
{
    use HasFactory, CreateUuidTrait;
}

Str initials helper (macro)

The Str::initials() macro returns the uppercase initials of a given name string. It intelligently trims whitespace and handles multi-word names.

Usage:

use Illuminate\Support\Str;

Str::initials('John Peter Smith'); // Returns: "JPS"

Changelog integration

Setup:

Publish config:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ltools-config

Publish migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ltools-migrations

Enable changelogs for one model, add to the model Vcoder7\Ltools\Http\Traits\RecordChangesTrait

Example:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Vcoder7\Ltools\Http\Traits\RecordChangesTrait;

class Page extends Model
{
    use RecordChangesTrait;
}

Exclude fields from change logging

Add to your model:

protected array $excludedChangelogFields = ['created_at', 'updated_at', 'email', 'secret_key'];

Get changelogs for model

$page = Page::find(1);
$changelogs = $page->changelogs;

PGSQL driver check

$table->isPgsqlDriver(function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->jsonb('options')->nullable();
})->else(function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->json('options')->nullable();
});