Laravel View Presenter

The coburncodes/presenter package allows you to easily integrate view presenters to keep your models tidy.

This packaged is adopted from Laracasts' view presenter. This package is compatible with Laravel v5.6+.

This package also provides extra conveniences like:

• Publish a config file to change the path of your view presenters
• Includes an artisan command to generate new view presenters for your models.

Install

You can install the package via composer:

$ composer require coburncodes/presenter

Config file

A config file can be published if you would like to change the default location of where the presenters are stored. By default, the view presenters are stored in the Presenters directory in the app root. Simply publish the config file by running:

$ php artisan vendor:publish

Find the presenter vendor

Provider: Coburncodes\Presenter\Providers\PresenterServiceProvider

Usage

Add trait to model:

To implement a view Presenter to a model add the presentable trait to your model.

use Coburncodes\Presenter\Presentable;

class User
{
    use Presentable;

    protected $fillable = [
        'first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'password',
    ];
...

Create the presenter using Artisan

An artisan command is included in the package to generate a view presenter for a model. Simply run:

$ php artisan presenter:generate

Follow the command prompts. Enter the name of the model that you want to create a presenter for as well as to create an initial method to present.

Create the presenter manually

You can manually create a presenter in your Presenters directory. The package uses the convention of ModelPresenter as the class name for each presenter. i.e. UserPresenter. See the following example:

<?php

namespace App\Presenters;

use Coburncodes\Presenter\Presenter;

class UserPresenter extends Presenter
{
    public function fullName()
    {
        return $this->first_name . ' ' . $this->last_name;
    }
}

Implement in your view

Before integrating this package, you might write:

public function index()
{
    return Auth::user()->first_name . ' ' . Auth::user()->last_name;
}

This becomes very messy and you are not DRYing up your code.

Using this package, you add the present() method plus the method name you used in your presenter.

public function index()
{
    return Auth::user()->present()->fullName;
}

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.