Laravel user settings

Simple and persistent boolean settings per user.

This package has been developed to help you store simple boolean settings (true/false or yes/no settings) per user.

Features

Only 1 additional column for multiple settings.
Settings are stored as binary.
Can be used on all models.
Customizable.
Fast.

Background

Laravel user settings only requires 1 additional column (bigint) per entity. All settings are stored in this column as a binary value. By using the bitwise operators in PHP we are able to store multiple settings in a single column without extra coding/decoding or multiple queries.

Searching for enabled settings is supported by MySQL as can be found here.

Usage

Get a setting

$user->setting('my_setting');

$user->getSetting('my_setting');

Set a setting

$user->setting('my_setting', true);

$user->setSetting('my_setting', true);

Overriding a list of allowed setting for the entity.
A global list of settings can be found in the user-settings.php config file, if you want to override these settings per model you can override the following method:

/**
 * getSettingFields function.
 * Get the default possible settings for the user. Can be overwritten
 * in the user model.
 *
 * @return array
 */
public function getSettingFields()
{
    return config('user-settings.setting_fields', []);
}

Searching for settings in a query

$user = (new User())->whereSetting('my_setting')->first();

Set multiple settings at once

$user->setMultipleSettings([
    'my_setting'        => true,
    'my_setting_2'      => false,
]);
$user->save();

Installation

First of all you should require the package using composer:

composer require internetcode/laravel-user-settings

Afterwards you can add the service provider to your providers array. This is optional since it is already auto discovered by Laravel.

'providers' => [
        /*
         * Laravel Framework Service Providers...
         */
        Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider::class,
        ...
        Internetcode\LaravelUserSettings\LaravelUserSettingsServiceProvider::class,
    ],

Publish the config and migration files.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=config
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=migrations

Please note that the newly created migration file defaults to a settings column on the user model. Feel free to change that, or add multiple tables.

On the models where you want to use the settings add the HasSettingsTrait trait.

<?php
namespace Internetcode\LaravelUserSettings\Tests;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Internetcode\LaravelUserSettings\Traits\HasSettingsTrait;
class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use HasSettingsTrait;

Caveats

Never change the order of the settings in the setting_fields array. Every field in here is converted based on the index of the field. Therefore changing the order/index of your setting, will result in invalid settings being true or false.

Bugs / Issues / Ideas

Please create an issue using the issue tracker or drop us an email.