Eloquent Model Futures

Give your models a nice and predictable future

A package that lets you plan changes to your models in a simple manner.

Installation

Require the package via composer

composer require dixie/eloquent-model-future

Run the package migrations to create a futures table, that will hold every future of your selected models.

php artisan migrate

Schedule the command to persist future plans

$scheduler->command('future:schedule')->daily();

Usage

On your desired models use the HasFuture trait.

class User extends Model
{
    use Dixie\EloquentModelFuture\HasFuture;
}

Now you can plan out, edit and take away attribute changes, planned for the future.

Here is how you interact with your models future.

$user = User::find(1);
$nextMonth = Carbon\Carbon::now()->addMonth();

// Plan a profile change for new years eve
$user->future()->plan([
    'bio' => 'Happy developer time. Wooh!',
    'mood' => 'excited',
])->for($nextMonth);

// Does our user have any scheduled plans for next month?
$user->future()->anyPlansFor($nextMonth); // true

// How does our user look in the future
$user->future()->see($newYearsEve);
User {
  'attributes': {
      'id': 1,
      'name': 'John Doe',
      'bio': 'Happy developer time. Wooh!',
      'mood': 'excited',
      [...]
  }
}

// You can commit to the changes by future plans after you've seen them
// ... this will fill the `committed` column with todays date
$user->future()->see($newYearsEve)->commit(); // true

// Access all future plans for the given day
$futurePlans = $user->future()->getPlansFor(Carbon $date)
FutureCollection {
    Future {
        'attributes' => [
            'bio' => 'Happy [...]',
            'mood' => 'excited',
        ]
    }
}

// There are some helper methods that come with the FutureCollection
$futurePlans->original();   // Original user state. Returns a user instance.

$futurePlans->result();     // How the user will look when collection is applied to user.
$futurePlans->resultDiff()  // Shows which attributes has changed 
                            // and what the values would be before and after

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API Reference

Class#methodName	Arguments	Returns	Note
Future#untilDate	Carbon	Eloquent\Builder	Query only futures scheduled between date('now') and the given date. This is an Eloquent scope.
Future#uncommitted	-	Eloquent\Builder	Query only uncommitted futures. This is an Eloquent scope.
Future#committed	-	Eloquent\Builder	Query only committed futures. This is an Eloquent scope.
Future#futureable	-	MorphTo	This is a standard Eloquent polymorphic relationship. (Inverse of HasFuture#futures)
FutureCollection#original	-	Model	Gets the model back with no data changed.
FutureCollection#result	-	Model	Gets the model back with all the future data filled. It is not saved
FutureCollection#resultDiff	-	Support\Collection	Gets a list of all fields that would change, with both before and after
FuturePlanner#plan	array	FuturePlanner	Set the attributes which should be persisted later.
FuturePlanner#for	Carbon	Future	Set the date for when the attributes should be persisted.
FuturePlanner#see	Carbon	Model	See the final result of a model for a given date.
FuturePlanner#getPlans	-	FutureCollection	Get all future plans for a model.
FuturePlanner#getPlansFor	Carbon	FutureCollection	Get all future plans for a model for the given day.
FuturePlanner#getPlansUntil	Carbon	FutureCollection	Get all future plans for a model, between now and the given date.
FuturePlanner#hasAnyPlans	-	boolean	See if model has any future plans at all.
FuturePlanner#hasAnyPlansFor	Carbon	boolean	See if model has any future plans for the given date.
FuturePlanner#hasAnyPlansUntil	Carbon	boolean	See if model has any future plans between now and the given date.
HasFuture#futures()	-	MorphMany	This is a standard Eloquent polymorphic relationship
HasFuture#uncommittedFutures	-	MorphMany	Same as futures but filtered to only include uncommitted futures
HasFuture#commit	-	boolean	This is a wrapper around $model->save() but it also sets the committed flag to Carbon::now()
Future#forDate	Carbon	Eloquent\Builder	Query only futures scheduled for the given day. This is an Eloquent scope.