Simple, nestable Terms & Taxonomies (similar to WordPress) for Laravel.

Require the package from your composer.json file

"require": {
    "lecturize/laravel-taxonomies": "^1.0"
}

and run $ composer update or both in one with $ composer require lecturize/laravel-taxonomies.

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Cviebrock\EloquentSluggable\ServiceProvider"
$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Lecturize\Taxonomies\TaxonomiesServiceProvider"

This will publish a config/sluggable.php, a config/lecturize.php and some migration files, that you'll have to run:

$ php artisan migrate

For migrations to be properly published ensure that you have added the directory database/migrations to the classmap in your projects composer.json.

First, add our HasCategories trait to your model.

<?php namespace App\Models;

use Lecturize\Taxonomies\Contracts\CanHaveCategories;
use Lecturize\Taxonomies\Traits\HasCategories;

class Post extends Model implements CanHaveCategories
{
    use HasCategories;

    // ...
}
?>

$model->addCategory('My Category', 'blog_category')

$model->addCategories(['Add','Multiple','Categories'], 'blog_category')

$model->addCategory('My Category', 'blog_category', 1, 2)

$model->getCategories('taxonomy')

$model->getCategory('My Category', 'blog_category')

$model->hasCategory('My Category', 'blog_category')

$model->removeCategory('My Category', 'blog_category')

$model->detachCategories()

$model = Model::categorizedIn(['Add','Multiple','Categories'], 'blog_category')->get();

$model = Model::categorized('My Category', 'blog_category')->get();

I've included a set of helper functions for your convenience, see src/helpers.php.

Add categories to an Eloquent model

$post = Post::find(1);

$post->addCategory('My First Category', 'blog_category');
$post->addCategories(['Category Two', 'Category Three'], 'blog_category');

First of all, this snippet will create three entries in your terms table, if they don't already exist:

• My First Category
• Category Two
• Category Three

Then it will create three entries in your taxonomies table, relating the terms with the given taxonomy "category".

And last it will relate the entries from your taxonomies table with your model (in this example a "Post" model) in your pivot table.

Why three tables?

Imagine you have a Taxonomy called post_cat and another one product_cat, the first categorises your blog posts, the second the products in your online shop. Now you add a product to a category (a term) called Shoes using $product->addCategory('Shoes', 'product_cat');. Afterwards you want to blog about that product and add that post to a post_cat called Shoes as well, using $product->addCategory('Shoes', 'post_cat');.

Normally you would have two entries now in your database, one like ['Shoes','product_cat'] and another ['Shoes','post_at']. Oops, now you recognize you misspelled Shoes, now you would have to change it twice, for each Taxonomy.

So I wanted to keep my Terms unique throughout my app, which is why I separated them from the Taxonomies and simply related them.

• [2021-02-09] v1.0 Extended the database tables to support UUIDs (be sure to generate some on your existing models) and better customization. Quite some breaking changes throughout the whole package.

Licensed under MIT license.

Handcrafted with love by Alexander Manfred Poellmann in Vienna & Rome.