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An interactive Artisan command to generate and update Laravel models with fields, casts, relationships, indexes, and migrations — safely and incrementally.

This package is designed for real projects, not just scaffolding demos.

✨ Features

• ✅ Interactive CLI wizard
• ✅ Create models + migrations
• ✅ Update existing models safely
• ✅ Manage $fillable, $hidden, $appends, $casts
• ✅ Relationship generation (incl. morphs)
• ✅ Pivot table generation
• ✅ Index creation with validation
• ✅ Safe alter migrations (no breaking schema)
• ✅ Warnings for duplicates & missing models

Installation

1. Install via Composer

Once the package is published to Packagist, you can install it in your Laravel project:

composer require farhanisrakyen/laravel-model-bender

2. Optional: Publish vendor assets (if applicable)

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-model-bender

3. Ensure app/Models exists

The package supports nested directories, so make sure your app/Models folder exists.

Usage

Generate a Model Interactively

Run the artisan command with the model name (supports nested paths):

php artisan make:model-interactive User

or, for nested paths

php artisan make:model-interactive Admin/User

• This will generate:
  • app/Models/Admin/User.php
  • Migration(s) under database/migrations

🧭 Interactive Flow 1️⃣ Define Fields Once you run the make:model-interactive command, you’ll be prompted for: - Field name - Field type (string, integer, boolean, enum, etc.) - Nullable - Unique - $fillable, $hidden, $appends - $casts

• You will be prompted to define fields:

  • Name, type, nullable, unique
  • Add to $fillable, $hidden, $appends
  • Cast type
  • Enum values if field type is enum

• Then define relationships:

  • Method name
  • Related model (full class or relative)
  • Relationship type (hasOne, hasMany, belongsTo, belongsToMany, morphOne, morphMany, morphTo, morphToMany)
  • Optionally generate pivot migrations for many-to-many relationships

• After previewing the summary, confirm to generate:

  • Eloquent model file
  • Migration file(s)
  • Pivot migrations (if any)

Example

php artisan make:model-interactive Blog/Post

• Creates app/Models/Blog/Post.php
• Generates database/migrations/xxxx_xx_xx_xxxxxx_create_posts_table.php
• Prompts interactively for fields, enums, casts, and relationships

Notes

• Supports nested directories.
• Pivot migrations are automatically created for belongsToMany or morphToMany relationships.
• $fillable, $casts, $hidden, $appends, and $guarded are automatically managed.
• Factories are not generated.

Contributing

If you find issues or want to add features, feel free to fork the repository and submit a pull request.

License

MIT