This package provides a trait that adds sortable behaviour to an Eloquent model.
The value of the order column of a new record of a model is determined by the maximum value of the order column of all records of that model + 1.
The package also provides a query scope to fetch all the records in the right order.
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This package can be installed through Composer.
composer require spatie/eloquent-sortable
To add sortable behaviour to your model you must:
- Implement the
Spatie\EloquentSortable\Sortableinterface. - Use the trait
Spatie\EloquentSortable\SortableTrait. - Optionally specify which column will be used as the order column. The default is
order_column.
use Spatie\EloquentSortable\Sortable;
use Spatie\EloquentSortable\SortableTrait;
class MyModel extends Eloquent implements Sortable
{
use SortableTrait;
public $sortable = [
'order_column_name' => 'order_column',
'sort_when_creating' => true,
];
...
}If you don't set a value $sortable['order_column_name'] the package will assume that your order column name will be named order_column.
If you don't set a value $sortable['sort_when_creating'] the package will automatically assign the highest order number to a new model;
Assuming that the db-table for MyModel is empty:
$myModel = new MyModel();
$myModel->save(); // order_column for this record will be set to 1
$myModel = new MyModel();
$myModel->save(); // order_column for this record will be set to 2
$myModel = new MyModel();
$myModel->save(); // order_column for this record will be set to 3
//the trait also provides the ordered query scope
$orderedRecords = MyModel::ordered()->get(); You can set a new order for all the records using the setNewOrder-method
/**
* the record for model id 3 will have record_column value 1
* the record for model id 1 will have record_column value 2
* the record for model id 2 will have record_column value 3
*/
MyModel::setNewOrder([3,1,2]);Optionally you can pass the starting order number as the second argument.
/**
* the record for model id 3 will have record_column value 11
* the record for model id 1 will have record_column value 12
* the record for model id 2 will have record_column value 13
*/
MyModel::setNewOrder([3,1,2], 10);You can also move a model up or down with these methods:
$myModel->moveOrderDown();
$myModel->moveOrderUp();You can also move a model to the first or last position:
$myModel->moveToStart();
$myModel->moveToEnd();You can swap the order of two models:
MyModel::swapOrder($myModel, $anotherModel);You can move a model to a specific position:
MyModel::moveToPosition(4);The package contains some integration/smoke tests, set up with Orchestra. The tests can be run via phpunit.
$ vendor/bin/phpunit
Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.
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