Introduction

This package provides a minimal customer management / CRUD scaffolding, in which a Customer entity:
- belongsTo an optional CustomerGroup entity
- morphMany Contact entity as well as
- optional morphMany Address entity.

It publishes controllers, models, formRequests, eloquent's resource classes, migrations, factories, test cases for CustomerGroup, Customer, Contact and optional Address resources to your application that can be easily customized based on your own application's needs.

Also, if you have any other model/entity in your app that is contactable or addressable, you do not need to redefine the contact or address related fields in that entity, controller, formRequests and so on. All you have to do is just add a new case in App\Enums\ContactBelongsTo as well as in getContactParentModelClass() method of this enum that represent your model/entity (once you look at how Customer Entity is defined in this enum, you would have clear understanding about how to add new entities) , and you are good to go. And same goes for the address entity. And yes, once you add your new parent model that would have contacts or addresses, do not forget to add contacts() and addresses() relationship method in that model (see Customer model as a concrete example).

Entities

CustomerGroup

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	bigInt	No (handled by Laravel)
name	string	Yes	Using this field customers can be categorized. By default, this field is unique. However, It can be customized as per the need
description	string	No	Additional info about the customerGroup
created_at	timestamp	No (handled by Laravel)
updated_at	timestamp	No (handled by Laravel)
deleted_at	timestamp	No (handled by Laravel)

Customer

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	bigInt	No (handled by Laravel)
first_name	string	Yes
middle_name	string	No
last_name	string	Yes
customer_code	string	No	Not required but if present, must be unique
enable_notification	boolean	No	whether the emails/sms should be sent i.e. promotional emails
date_of_birth	date	No
gender	string	Yes	Possible values are "M", "F" or "Other"
gender_other	string	Yes/No	required_if gender attribute =Other
note	string	No	An optional note/message that customer mentioned
created_at	timestamp	No (handled by Laravel)
updated_at	timestamp	No (handled by Laravel)
deleted_at	timestamp	No (handled by Laravel)

Contact

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	bigInt	No (handled by Laravel)
channel	string	Yes	the contact channel that will be used to contact. Email, Mobile, Other (twitter, instagram,...)
channel_other	string	Yes	required_if channel attribute = Other
channel_value	string	Yes	the value of the channel i.e. if channel attribute = Email then this attribute would be an email and if channel attribute is Mobile then this attribute would be a mobile number and if channel attribute = Other then channel_value attribute would depend on channel_other attribute's value. For example if channel=Other, channel_other=twitter and then channel_value=twitter handle and so on
contactable_id	bigInt	Yes	The ID of the parent model this contact belongs to. i.e. the parent model may be a Customer, an Employee and so on
contactable_type	string	Yes	The string identifier of the parent model this contact belongs to. i.e. It may a App\Models\Customer, App\Models\Employee and so on (note: as per laravel docs, this string identifier is customizable and for this reason a belongs_to attribute was added below)
belongs_to	string	Yes	The string identifier of the parent model this contact belongs to. This string identifier would be unique_key per model
created_at	timestamp	No (handled by Laravel)
updated_at	timestamp	No (handled by Laravel)
deleted_at	timestamp	No (handled by Laravel)

Address

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	bigInt	No (handled by Laravel)
line_1	string	Yes
line_2	string	No
postal_code	string	No
country_id	bigInt	Yes
region_id	bigInt	Yes
city_id	bigInt	Yes
landmark	string	No
lat	string	No
long	string	No
addressable_id	bigInt	Yes	The ID of the parent model this address belongs to. i.e. the parent model may a Customer, an Employee and so on
addressable_type	string	Yes	The string identifier of the parent model this address belongs to. i.e. It may a App\Models\Customer, App\Models\Employee and so on (note: as per laravel docs, this string identifier is customizable and for this reason a belongs_to attribute was added below)
belongs_to	string	Yes	The string identifier of the parent model this address belongs to. This string identifier would be unique_key per model
applicable_for_shipping	boolean	No
created_at	timestamp	No (handled by Laravel)
updated_at	timestamp	No (handled by Laravel)
deleted_at	timestamp	No (handled by Laravel)

How to install

Step 1:

composer require naveedali8086/customer-management --dev
composer require naveedali8086/contact-management --dev

(Optional: include following package if you want to have address(es) for a customer entity)

composer require naveedali8086/address-management --dev 

Step 2:
Now publish the scaffolding provided by all these packages via:

php artisan customer-crud:install
php artisan contact-crud:install
php artisan address-crud:install (run this only if you have added "address-management" package

Note:

The Contact and Address entities have a morphTo relationship (contactable and addressable respectively) defined in them. It means that the Contact entity may belong to multiple parent entities. i.e. A contact may belong to a Customer, Supplier, Doctor, Patient etc. If you added new parent for a Contact entity, it must be defined in as a new case of in App\Enums\ContactBelongsTo as well as in getContactParentModelClass() method of this enum. And same goes for the address entity.

Also, if address-management package was installed, please uncomment addresses() relationship method in defined in Customer model.

Step 3:

php artisan migrate

Step 4:

Define customerGroup, customer, contact and (optional) address crud routes in api.php or web.php routes files as per your needs.

api.php:
--------
Route::apiResource('customer_groups', CustomerGroupController::class)
Route::apiResource('customers', CustomerController::class)
Route::apiResource('contacts', ContactController::class)
Route::apiResource('addresses', AddressController::class)

web.php:
--------
Route::resource('customer_groups', CustomerGroupController::class)
Route::resource('customers', CustomerController::class)
Route::resource('contacts', ContactController::class)
Route::resource('addresses', AddressController::class)

Note: you may be need to append except() or only() functions in above routes in web.php to only add routes that provide CRUD's backend functionality

Run the tests

php artisan test tests/Feature/CustomerGroupControllerTest.php
php artisan test tests/Feature/CustomerControllerTest.php
php artisan test tests/Feature/ContactControllerTest.php
php artisan test tests/Feature/AddressControllerTest.php

P.S. Or run all the tests in one go using
php artisan test tests/Feature/CustomerGroupControllerTest.php tests/Feature/CustomerControllerTest.php tests/Feature/ContactControllerTest.php tests/Feature/AddressControllerTest.php
and so.

Questions?

In case there is anything unclear feel free to reach out to me at naveedali8086@gmail.com

Authors

Naveed Ali

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details