Generating Service Classes, Contracts & Traits Using Extended Artisan Command Package

Recently, I released Extended Artisan Commands, a mini package for generating plain PHP classes, traits and interfaces. This package is useful for generating action classes, services, repositories, contracts, traits e.t.c.

In this tutorial, I will walk you through how this package works and how you can use it during development.

Installation

This package is solely for development so its highly recommended to install it as a dev package.

composer require stephenjude/extended-artisan-commands --dev

Generating PHP Classes

In this package we have two ways of generating classes. The first is the make:class and the other is make:abstract-class . Let's take a closer look at these two commands.

Make Class Command

The make:class command generates plan PHP class. For example, lets generate an email forwarder service class.

php artisan make:class Services/EmailForwarderService

This will generate an EmailForwarderService class under the App/Services namespace.

// app/Services/EmailForwarderService.php
<?php
namespace App\Services;
class EmailForwarderService
{

}

Make Abstract Class Command

The make:abstract-class command generates an abstract PHP class. For example, lets generate an abstract email forwarder class. inside our app Services folder.

php artisan make:abstract-class Services/AbstractEmailForwarder

This will generate an AbstractEmailForwarder PHP abstract class under the App/Services namespace.

// app/Services/AbstractEmailForwarder.php
<?php
namespace App\Services;
abstract class AbstractEmailForwarder
{

}

Generating PHP Interfaces

You can generate PHP interfaces which is referred to as contracts in the Laravel community. The default namespace for interfaces is App/Contracts but you can change this in the package config file.

Lets create an email forwarder contract(interface):

php artisan make:interface EmailForwarder

This will generate an EmailForwarder PHP interface under the App/Contracts namespace.

// app/Contracts/EmailForwarder.php
<?php
namespace App\Contracts;
interface EmailForwarder{

}

Generating PHP Traits

This package generates PHP traits under the App/Traits namespace. You can also change this in the package config file.

Let's generate a file upload trait.

php artisan make:trait FileUpload

This will generate a FileUpload PHP trait under the App/Traits namespace.

// app/Traits/FileUpload.php
<?php
namespace App\Traits;
trait FileUpload
{

}

Command Options

This package provides two kind of options. The first is the --force option which applies to all the commands provided in this package. The --force option is used to generate a class and replace any existing file present.

Force example, assuming we are generating a FileUpload trait and we want to replace already existing FileUpload trait, we will pass the --force option to the make:trait command like this:

php artisan make:trait FileUpload --force

Make Class Command Options

The make:class command has for options that can be applied to it. Let me walk you through them.

--interface OR -i This options tells the package to also generate an interface while generating our new class.

--trait OR -t This will generate a trait.

--abstract OR -c This will generate an abstract class.

--all OR -a This will generate an interface, a trait and an abstract class while generating our new class.

Configurations

The package comes with configuration that sets default namespaces for the files being generated. You can publish and make changes to the config file so that it suits your project.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Stephenjude\ExtendedArtisanCommands\ExtendedArtisanCommandsServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Here is the default configuration file.

return [
    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Class Namespace
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you can configure the default namespace for
    | the make:class command.
    |
    */
    'class_namespace' => '',

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Abstract Class Namespace
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you can configure the default namespace for
    | the make:abstract-class command.
    |
    */
    'abstract_class_namespace' => '',

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Interface Namespace
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you can configure the default namespace for
    | the make:interface command.
    |
    */
    'interface_namespace' => '\Contracts',

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Trait Namespace
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you can configure the default namespace for
    | the make:trait command.
    |
    */
    'trait_namespace' => '\Traits',
];

Video Demo

I made a video demo on how this package works. You can check it out here.

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Conclusion

I hope you enjoy the goodies in this package. You can find this package here on GitHub and don't forget to give it a star, it means a lot to me!