Laravel taxonomies

Assign categories, tags, types, etc to your models or any taxonomy that can be used to classify models.

Installation

composer require hamedov/laravel-taxonomies

Publish config file

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Hamedov\Taxonomies\TaxonomyServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Create taxonomies

use Hamedov\Taxonomies\Models\Taxonomy;

// Create new category
$category = Taxonomy::create([
  'title' => 'Electronics', // The only required field
  'description' => 'Electronics category description',
  'font_icon' => 'fa-laptop', // Enables you to assign font icons to your taxonomies
  'type' => 'category',
  'parent_id' => null, // Allow for sub categories/taxonomies
]);

// Or create a new tag
$tag = Taxonomy::create([
  'title' => 'Php', // The only required field
  'type' => 'tag',
]);

// Create any custom taxonomy
$ticket_class = Taxonomy::create([
  'title' => 'Class A',
  'description' => '',
  'font_icon' => 'fa-ticket',
  'type' => 'ticket_class',
]);

Assign image icons to taxonomies

• The package uses spatie/laravel-medialibrary to allow you to assign image icons to taxonomies.
• You can configure icons collection name and icon conversions in the config file, you can define as many conversions as you like.
• The icon collection is a single file collection.

  'icon_collection_name' => 'taxonomy_icons',
    'icon_conversions' => [
    	'medium' => [120, 120], // Width, Height
    'small' => [90, 90],
    ],
  
  

• Assign an image to taxonomy

  // You can pass any parameter that can be passed to addMedia method of medialibrary package
  $taxonomy->setIcon(request()->file('icon'));
  

• Refer to Media library documentation for more info.

Translate taxonomies

• You can also set translations for the title and description columns using spatie/laravel-translatable package.
• You database server must support json columns for translations to work.
• Refer to https://github.com/spatie/laravel-translatable for more information on how to translate these fields.

Manage model taxonomies

• To be able to assign taxonomies to any of your models, the model must use the HasTaxonomies trait.

  use Hamedov/Taxonomies/Traits/HasTaxonomies;
  
  class Post extends Model {
    use HasTaxonomies;
    
  }
  

• Assign taxonomies to models

  $post = Post::find(1);
  $taxonomy = Taxonomy::find(1);
  
  // Add taxonomy to post
  $post->addTaxonomy($taxonomy->id);
  
  // Or add many taxonomies at once
  $post->addTaxonomies([1, 2, 3]);
  
  // Set new taxonomies and remove existing
  // This will remove all post taxonomies of type category
  // And then adds the new specified taxonomies
  // To remove all old taxonomies of all types remove the second parameter
  $post->setTaxonomies([1, 2, 3], 'category');
  
  // Remove post taxonomy
  $post->removeTaxonomy($taxonomy_id = 1);
  
  // Remove post taxonomies of specific type
  $post->removeTaxonomies('tag', [5, 6, 7]);
  // Or remove all post tags
  $post->removeTaxonomies('tag');
  
  // Remove all post taxonomies
  $post->removeAllTaxonomies();
  
  // Get post taxonomies by type
  $categories = $post->taxonomies('category')->get();
  $tags = $post->taxonomies('tags')->get();
  
  // Or get all taxonomies at once
  $taxonomies = $post->taxonomies;
  

• Available scopes

  // Scope taxonomies with specific type
  Taxonomy::type('category')->get();
  
  // Scope entries with a specific taxonomy
  $taxonomy = Taxonomy::find(1);
  $posts = Post::hasTaxonomy($taxonomy->id)->get();
  
  // Scope entries which have any of the specified taxonomies
  $posts = Post::hasAnyTaxonomy([1, 2, 3])->get();
  
  

Query models related to specific taxonomy

// We can only get one type of taxable models at once
// This is a limitation of many to many polymorphic relationships
$taxonomy = Taxonomy::find(1);
$taxonomy_posts = $taxonomy->taxables('App\Post')->get();
$taxonomy_products = $taxonomy->taxables('App\Product')->get();

// To get all models at once, we can do something like this
$taxonomy->load('taxes', 'taxes.taxable');
foreach($taxonomy->taxes as $tax)
{
  // $tax->taxable here is the post or product or any thing else.
  dd($tax->taxable);
}

Query related entries in pivot table

• You can query entries related to specific taxonomy in pivot table

  $taxonomy = Taxonomy::find(1);
  $pivot_entries = $taxonomy->taxes()->where([
    // Filter by taxonomy_id, taxable_id, taxable_type
  ])->get();
  
  

• You can also do the same from other model perspective

  $post = Post::find(1);
  $pivot_entries = $post->taxes()->where([
    // Filter by taxonomy_id, taxable_id, taxable_type
  ])->get();
  

License

Released under the Mit license, see LICENSE