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Manage Taxonomies, Categories, and Tags in Laravel

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The Laravel Taxonomy package manages categories, tags, and hierarchical structures in Laravel applications. Taxonomy is ideal for category management, organizing content, product attributes, or any hierarchical data structure. Here's a quick example of creating taxonomies and associating them with an Eloquent model:

use Aliziodev\LaravelTaxonomy\Facades\Taxonomy;
use Aliziodev\LaravelTaxonomy\Enums\TaxonomyType;

// Create a category
$electronics = Taxonomy::create([
    'name' => 'Electronics',
    'type' => TaxonomyType::Category->value,
    'description' => 'Electronic products and gadgets',
]);

// Create a subcategory
$smartphones = Taxonomy::create([
    'name' => 'Smartphones',
    'type' => TaxonomyType::Category->value,
    'parent_id' => $electronics->id,
]);

// Create tags
$featured = Taxonomy::create([
    'name' => 'Featured',
    'type' => TaxonomyType::Tag->value,
]);

// Assuming you have a Product model with HasTaxonomy trait
$product = Product::create([
    'name' => 'iPhone 15 Pro',
    'price' => 999.99,
]);

// Attach taxonomies
$product->attachTaxonomies([$electronics->id, $smartphones->id, $featured->id]);

After attaching taxonomies to a product model, here's how you might query products with the same category:

// Find products in the electronics category
$products = Product::withTaxonomyType(TaxonomyType::Category)
    ->withTaxonomySlug('electronics')
    ->get();

// See if a product has given taxonomies
$product->hasTaxonomies($categoryIds);
$product->hasAllTaxonomies($tagIds);
$product->hasTaxonomyType(TaxonomyType::Category);

This is just a taste of all the features this package provides. For in-depth examples and complete documentation, check out the package's readme file. The readme covers setup, configuration, and examples of the package's main features, which include:

Main Features

  • Hierarchical Terms: Create parent-child relationships between terms
  • Metadata Support: Store additional data as JSON with each taxonomy
  • Term Ordering: Control the order of terms with sort_order
  • Polymorphic Relationships: Associate taxonomies with any model
  • Multiple Term Types: Use predefined types (Category, Tag, etc.) or create custom types
  • Bulk Operations: Attach, detach, sync, or toggle multiple taxonomies at once
  • Advanced Querying: Filter models by taxonomies with query scopes
  • Efficient Queries: Optimized database queries for hierarchical data
  • Testing Support: Built-in testing utilities
  • And more...

🧑‍💻 You can get started with this package on GitHub: aliziodev/laravel-taxonomy.

composer require aliziodev/laravel-taxonomy
php artisan taxonomy:install
php artisan migrate
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