Laravel Squire v1.x 📜

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Squire is a library of static Eloquent models for fixture data that is commonly needed in web applications, such as countries, currencies and airports. It's built on top of Caleb Porzio's Sushi package.

Common use cases for Squire include:

• Populating dropdown options, such as a country selector on an address form.
• Attaching extra data to other models in your app, such as airport information to a Flight model. See the section on model relationships.

Contents

• Installing Squire
• Using a model
• Available models
  • Squire\Models\Airline
  • Squire\Models\Airport
  • Squire\Models\Continent
  • Squire\Models\Counties\GbCounty
  • Squire\Models\Country
  • Squire\Models\Currency
  • Squire\Models\Region
• Model relationships
• Column customisation
• Contributing

Installing Squire

You can use Composer to install Squire into your application.

composer require danharrin/squire

No additional setup is required.

Using a model

You can interact with a Squire model just like you would any other Eloquent model, except that it only handles read-only operations.

use Squire\Models\Country;

Country::all(); // Get information about all countries.

Country::find('us'); // Get information about the United States.

Country::where('name', 'like', 'a%')->get(); // Get information about all countries beginning with the letter "a".

Available models

Squire\Models\Airline

Column Name	Description	Example
alias	Alternative name of the airline.	EasyJet Airline
call_sign	Call sign of the airline.	EASY
code_iata	IATA code of the airline.	u2
code_icao	ICAO code of the airline.	ezy
country_id	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the airline.	gb
name	Name of the airline.	easyJet

Relationship name	Model
country	Squire\Models\Country
continent	Squire\Models\Continent

Squire\Models\Airport

Column Name	Description	Example
code_gps	GPS code of the airport.	ayse
code_iata	IATA code of the airport.	nis
code_icao	Local code of the airport.	sbi
municipality	Municipality of the airport.	Simberi Island
name	Name of the airport.	Simberi Airport
region_id	ISO 3166-2 region code of the airport.	pg-nik
type	Type of airport.	small_airport

Relationship name	Model
country	Squire\Models\Country
region	Squire\Models\Region

Squire\Models\Continent

Column Name	Description	Example
code	Two letter continent code.	na
name	Continent name.	North America

Relationship name	Model
countries	Squire\Models\Country
regions	Squire\Models\Region

Squire\Models\Counties\GbCounty

Column Name	Description	Example
code	ISO 3166-2 county code.	gb-ess
name	County name.	Essex
region_id	ISO 3166-2 region code of the county.	gb-eng

Relationship name	Model
region	Squire\Models\Region

Squire\Models\Country

Column Name	Description	Example
calling_code	E.164 country calling code.	1
capital_city	Capital city of the country.	Washington
code_2	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.	us
code_3	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code.	usa
continent_id	Two letter continent code of the country.	na
currency_id	ISO 4217 alphabetic currency code of the country.	usd
flag	Unicode flag of the country.	🇺🇸
name	Country name.	United States

Relationship name	Model
airlines	Squire\Models\Airline
airports	Squire\Models\Airport
continent	Squire\Models\Continent
currency	Squire\Models\Currency
regions	Squire\Models\Region

Squire\Models\Currency

Column Name	Description	Example
code_alphabetic	ISO 4217 alphabetic currency code.	usd
code_numeric	ISO 4217 numeric currency code.	840
decimal_digits	Number of decimal digits to use when formatting this currency.	2
name	Currency name.	US Dollar
name_plural	Plural currency name.	US Dollars
rounding	The formatting precison of this currency.	0
symbol	International currency symbol.	$
symbol_native	Native currency symbol.	$

Relationship name	Model
countries	Squire\Models\Country

Squire\Models\Region

Column Name	Description	Example
code	ISO 3166-2 region code.	us-ny
country_id	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.	us
name	Region name.	New York

Relationship name	Model
airports	Squire\Models\Airport
continent	Squire\Models\Continent
country	Squire\Models\Country
gbCounties	Squire\Models\County\GbCounty

Model relationships

Implementing an Eloquent relationship between a model in your app and a Squire model is very simple. There are a couple of approaches you could take.

Using inheritance

The simplest option is to create a new model in your app, and let it extend the Squire model. Your new app model will now behave like the original Squire model, except you can register new methods and customise it to your liking:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Squire\Models\Country as SquireCountry;

class Country extends SquireCountry
{
    public function users()
    {
        return $this->hasMany(User::class);
    }
}

See our section on model customisation for more customisation possibilities that are made available if you utilise this method.

Using resolveRelationUsing()

Another option is the resolveRelationUsing() method. This allows you to dynamically register a relationship for a Squire model from anywhere in your app, for example, within a service provider:

use App\Models\User;
use Squire\Models\Country;

Country::resolveRelationUsing('users', function (Country $country) {
    return $country->hasMany(User::class);
});

Column customisation

Squire allows you to customise the column names on any provided model.

Create a new model within your app and let it extend the Squire model that you would like to customise:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Squire\Models\Country as SquireCountry;

class Country extends SquireCountry
{
    protected $map = [
        'dial_code' => 'calling_code',
    ];
}

In this example, the App\Models\Country, extending the Squire\Models\Country model, has the calling_code column remapped to dial_code:

use App\Models\Country;

Country::find('us')->dial_code; // 1

Contributing

If you have fixture data to contribute to the library, please open a pull request!

For reference, check out the existing models.