Framework: MINOR feature request: improved model stub

[stevendesu]

• Laravel Version: 5.4.0
• PHP Version: N/A
• Database Driver & Version: N/A

Description:

Upon generating a new model in Laravel, a file like the following is created:

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class MyModel extends Model
{
    //
}

This file does not make obvious the large number of protected members available. Nearly 100% of the time I find myself having to manually type:

/**
 * The attributes that are mass assignable.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $fillable = [];

just to get started. It would make development faster and prevent simple bugs from accidentally mistyping these common attributes if the Model stub gave you a pre-commented list of available protected members when a model was first generated. Something like:

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class MyModel extends Model
{
    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable;

    /**
     * The attributes that aren't mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $guarded;

    /**
     * The attributes that should be mutated to dates.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $dates;

    // ... (continue with all protected members)
}

I feel this would make Laravel a bit easier and faster to work with, and it would prevent simple mistakes like misspelling a protected member.

Steps To Reproduce:

php artisan make:model MyModel

[deleugpn]

What about the developers that already read the documentation and knows how it works and don't want to clutter their model with useless code?

[mrkatz]

Best way would be to introduce an option into the make model command to include these attributes if desired. Eg. php artisan make:model MyModel --attrubutes

[mrkatz]

php artisan make:model MyModel --attributes

[stevendesu]

I could agree with that.

If enough people agree I may go ahead and work on a PR for it. Shouldn't be too complicated.

[deleugpn]

If you need it for yourself, you can easily extend the MakeCommandConsole and override the stub method, but if the goal is to help new developers, then you're in a contradiction because they won't know about the optional parameter without reading the documentation and if they read the documentation, they don't need this at all.

[Dylan-DPC]

open feature requests in the laravel/internals repo. :)

[themsaid]

For suggestions and feature requests please use the https://github.com/laravel/internals repo.