A simple fractal service provider and transformer generator for laravel 5

^{welcome to my first laravel package, lets rock.}

Require this package with composer using the following command:

composer require cyvelnet/laravel5-fractal

After updating composer, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php

'Cyvelnet\Laravel5Fractal\Laravel5FractalServiceProvider',

Now you can start using this package with the following simple command

$user = User::find(1);

return Fractal::item($user, new UserTransformer)->responseJson(200);

OR

$users = User::get(); // $users = User::paginate();

return Fractal::collection($users, new UserTransformer)->responseJson(200);

You will automatically gain some extra attributes when you passing a laravel's paginator object.

In case you would like to get only the transformed array, you may do

Fractal::collection($user, new UserTransformer)->getArray(); 

You may now generate transformer classes in artisan

php artisan make:transformer

in this case we are going to use artisan make:transformer UserTransformer, transformer file will automatically created in App\Transfomers\ directory, alternately you may want to change the directory or namespace value, you may do so by providing command option

--directory="Directory Relative to App" or --namespace="Your Namespace"

to overwrite the default setting.

now you may open your generated transformer file and start formatting your data as you like

public function transform($user)
{
    return [
           'id' => $user->user_id,
           'name' => "{$user->user_firstname} {$user->user_lastname}",
           ...
           ];
}

You can also publish the config-file to change implementations to suits you.

php artisan vendor:publish

• add functionality to artisan command to generate sub transformer and includes function boilerplate