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https://github.com/sendyhalim/laravel-modularizer

This package is still in early development, but it is usable and already tested.

Modularizer is a Laravel 4 plugin. Basically it is an artisan command that creates module and auto validation repository based on given input. It is inspired by these amazing people:

• creolab's module
• JeffreyWay's generator

###Install

Add "sendy/modularizer": "dev-master" to your composer.json then run composer update in your terminal.

Add Sendy\Modularizer\ModularizerCommandServiceProvider and Sendy\Modularizer\ModularizerModulesServiceProvider respectively to app/config/app.php service providers.

• Sendy\Modularizer\ModularizerCommandServiceProvider is for registering commands.
• Sendy\Modularizer\ModularizerModulesServiceProvider is for registering active modules(registers route and view namespace of module).

Last, (with default config)include this to your composer.json for autoloading

"psr-0":{
            "Modules": "app/modules"
        }

###Using it...

First make you need to publish the config, fire up your terminal and type

php artisan config:publish sendy/modularizer

it will generate modularizer config app/config/packages/sendy/modularizer/module.php

inside the config, there's

<?php
return [
    'base_path'      => app_path() . '/modules',
    'base_directory' => 'Modules',
    'active'         => [

    ],
];

• base_path is the path where your module will be created.
• base_directory is the base directory inside base path, by default it will make module in app/modules/Modules. With this, it's easy to include composer autoloading namespace by using Modules as base namespace.
• active is an array of active modules, think of it as module registration.

##Available Commands

####Create a module:

php artisan modularizer:create-module <ModuleName>

arguments

• Module name

options

• --path base path to modules to be created, default to app/modules.
• --basedirectory base directory of modules, default to Modules, with default config modules will be created in app/modules/Modules and base namespace will be Modules.

####Prepare modularizer, make Core for your modules

php artisan modularizer:prepare

options

• --path base path to modules to be created, default to app/modules.
• --basedirectory base directory of modules, default to Modules, with default config Core will be created in app/modules/Modules and base namespace will be Modules.

Create repository

php artisan modularizer:create-repository <ModelName> <ModuleName>

arguments

• Model name
• Module name

options

• --path base path to modules to be created, default to app/modules.
• --basedirectory base directory of modules, default to Modules, with default config modules will be created in app/modules/Modules and base namespace will be Modules.
• --basenamespace base namespace, default Modules.

Create migration for a module

This command takes input and call php artisan migrate:make command with path edited to module path hence you need to specify your module name

php artisan modularizer:make-migration <MigrationName> <ModuleName>

arguments

• Migration name
• Module name

options

• --path path for migration file, with default config it will be app/modules/ModuleName/database/migrations.
• --basedirectory base directory of modules, default to Modules
• --create specify this if the migration is to create new table.(Same as laravel migration option)
• --table specify this if the migration is to modify new table.(Same as laravel migration option)

##Examples

Creating Admin module

php artisan modularizer:create-module Admin

with default config it will create Admin module in app/modules/Modules

- Admin
    - Controllers
        - AdminBaseController.php
    - Repositories
        - Read
        - Write
    - RepositoryInterfaces
        - Read
        - Write
    - database
        - migrations
    - views
    - routes.php

Admin views is registered with its namespace admin::view-file, example I have a view file Admin/views/layout.blade.php, to get it you need to use admin::layout

Modularizer also comes with autovalidation repository, first you need to publish Core(I like to call it so, but you can configure whatever name you like)

php artisan modularizer:prepare

with default config it will create Core in app/modules/Modules

- Core
    - Repositories
        - Read
            - BasicRepositoryReader.php
        - Write
            - BasicRepositoryWriter.php
    - RepositoryInterfaces
        - Read
            - BasicRepositoryReaderInterface.php
        - Write
            - BasicRepositoryWriterInterface.php
    - Validators
        - Interfaces
            - ValidatorInterface.php

All repositories and interfaces that are created by modularizer will automatically extend BasicRepository(Reader/Writer) and its interface will automatically extend BasicRepository(Reader/Writer)Interfaces

Notice ValidatorInterface.php, everytime we save(create/update) with a repository, we need to pass a class that implements ValidatorInterface to the repository. First let's make a validator for model User

<?php
namespace Modules\Admin\Validators;

use Modules\Core\Validators\Interfaces\ValidatorInterface;
use Validator;

class UserValidator implements ValidatorInterface
{
    public function validate(array $input)
    {
        // do validation here
        // if success return true
        // else return false
    }
}

Now we need a UserRepository, with modularizer we can make it fast

php artisan modularizer:create-repository User Admin

the above command will make repository(read and write) for model User inside Admin module. 4 Files will be created for you

• Admin/RepositoryInterfaces/Read/UserRepositoryReaderInterface
• Admin/RepositoryInterfaces/Write/UserRepositoryWriterInterface
• Admin/Repositories/Read/UserRepositoryReader
• Admin/Repositories/Write/UserRepositoryWriter

The repository interfaces will be tied with user repositories

App::singleton('Modules\Admin\RepositoryInterfaces\Write\UserRepositoryWriterInterface', 'Modules\Admin\Repositories\Write\UserRepositoryWriter')
App::singleton('Modules\Admin\RepositoryInterfaces\Read\UserRepositoryReaderInterface', 'Modules\Admin\Repositories\Read\UserRepositoryReader');

That's it! We can use the UserRepository now

$userValidator = App::make('Modules\Admin\Validators\UserValidator');

$repo = App::make('Modules\Admin\RepositoryInterfaces\Write\UserRepositoryWriterInterface');

if ($repo->create($input, $userValidator))
{
    // success
}
else
{
    // fail
}