Manage Taxonomies, Categories, and Tags in Laravel

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