Laravel Options Package

February 23, 2019 / Paul Redmond

The Laravel Options package from Appstract is a global database key-value options store for Laravel. This package uses a simple options database table with a key and value field and an Option model available via a service provider.

Related: Storing Global Application Settings

Laravel Options has some helpers and a Facade for working with the options table, along with a common public API for creating, getting, setting, and deleting options by key:

// Get an option
option('someKey');

// Set option
option(['someKey' => 'someValue']);

// Check the option exists
option_exists('someKey');

The package ships with a console command to set global options via the command line:

php artisan option:set site_name "Laravel News"

Laravel Options takes away some boilerplate that you might have in your app to replicate a simple key-value store, but doesn’t have much functionality beyond setting simple key-values and you’ll be responsible for any data transformations.

For complete installation instructions check out appstract/laravel-options on GitHub.

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