View Presenter Classes for Eloquent Models

The Laravel Presentable package by Jonathan Zarate is a package to create presenter classes for Eloquent models. A presenter class allows you to separate display concerns from model data in a dedicated class.

Here's an example from the README:

use App\Models\Presenters\UserPresenter;
use TheHiveTeam\Presentable\HasPresentable;
 
class User extends Model
{
    use HasPresentable;
 
    protected $presenter = UserPresenter::class;
}

Eloquent models with a presenter class use the HasPresentable trait and a $presenter property that defines the presenter class.

Here's an example of what a presenter class will look like:

namespace App\Models\Presenters;
 
use TheHiveTeam\Presentable\Presenter;
 
class UserPresenter extends Presenter
{
    public function name()
    {
        return ucwords($this->model->name);
    }
}

Using the User model as an example, you can now access presenter methods in the view:

$user->present()->name;

This approach might be overkill depending on the goals of your application; however, if you find that separating view display logic into a dedicated presenter class makes sense, this package could be an excellent fit.

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.