Laravel Query

Query is a package that provides queries objects for your Laravel application.

Installation

1: Require via composer

From the command line, run:

composer require xabou/query

Alternatively, you can put the following in your composer.json file:

{
    "require": {
        "xabou/query": "^0.5.0"
    }
}

2: Register Service Provider

Open config/app.php and append providers array with:

Xabou\Query\QueryServiceProvider::class

Usage

Create A Query

With the package now installed, a new artisan command is available.

php artisan make:query PopularUsersQuery

A 'Queries' directory will be created, if it doesn't already exist, within your app.

Declare Query Body

Within the body method you can declare your query:

public static function body()
{
    return User::select(['user.username', 'user.id', 'user.verified', 'popularity_user.score'])
                 ->join('popularity_user', 'users.id', '=', 'popularity_user.user_id')
                 ->where('user.verified', 1)
                 ->with('avatar')
                 ->orderBy('popularity_user.score', 'DESC')
                 ->orderBy('user.username', 'ASC');
}

Fetching Results

Body

This is where your query logic should be declared. This method returns an instance of Eloquent Database Builder or executed query.

Get

This is a wrapper for body method. When body returns an instance of Eloquent Database Builder this method delegates to Builder's get method.

1: Delegate to Eloquent Database Builder

You can call any method defined in Eloquent Database Builder by returning an instance of it, like above example.

// Dynamic static method calls
PopularUsersQuery::first()

// or
PopularUsersQuery::get()

// Dynamic method calls
(new PopularUsersQuery())->get()

2: Execute query

Within the body method you can also execute your query.

public static function body()
{
    return User::select(['user.username', 'user.id', 'user.verified', 'popularity_user.score'])
                 ->join('popularity_user', 'users.id', '=', 'popularity_user.user_id')
                 ->where('user.verified', 1)
                 ->with('avatar')
                 ->orderBy('popularity_user.score', 'DESC')
                 ->paginate();
}

Then simply call body or get method on Query.

PopularUsersQuery::body()

//or

PopularUsersQuery::get()

Note: In this case get method serves as an alias to body method. It won't delegate to Eloquent Database Builder.

3: Chain query

By returning the content of body you can continue chaining methods on Eloquent Database Builder.

PopularUsersQuery::body()->where('age', '>', 25)->get();

Passing Arguments

You can pass as many arguments as you want through body or get methods.

$age = 25;
$verified = 1 
PopularUsersQuery::get($age, $verified);

public static function body($age, $verified)
{
    return User::where('age', '>', $age)
                 ->where('verified', $verified);
}