This is a package for Laravel that can be used to store and access preferences of the currently authenticated user. The preferences are stored as JSON in a single database column. The default configuration stores this alongside the user record in the users table.

1. Run composer require robtrehy/laravel-user-preferences to include this in your project.
2. Publish the config file with the following command

   php artisan vendor:publish --provider="RobTrehy\LaravelUserPreferences\UserPreferencesServiceProvider" --tag="config"
   

3. Modify the published configuration file to your requirements. The file is located at config/user-preferences.php.
4. Add the preferences column to the database. A migration file is included, just run the following command

   php artisan vendor:publish --provider="RobTrehy\LaravelUserPreferences\UserPreferencesServiceProvider" --tag="migrations" && php artisan migrate
   

   This will add the column defined in your configuration file to the table defined in your configuration file.

Open config/user-preferences.php to adjust the packages configuration.

If this file doesn't exist, run php artisan vendor:public --provider="RobTrehy\LaravelUserPreferences\UserPreferencesServiceProvider" --tag="config" to create the default configuration file.

Set table, column, and primary_key to match your requirements. primary_key should be the users id.

Laravel User Preferences uses the Laravel Cache driver to reduce the number of queries on your database. By default Laravel Caches using the file driver. If you wish to disable this, you can use the null driver. The cache key supplied by Laravel User Preferences adds a prefix and suffix to the user's id. You can supply your own prefix and suffix by changing the cache.prefix and cache.suffix configuration values.

In the defaults array you can set your default values for user preferences.

    'database' => [
        'table' => 'users',
        'column' => 'preferences',
        'primary_key' => 'id'
    ],
    'cache' => [
        'prefix' => 'user-',
        'suffix' => '-preferences',
    ],
    'defaults' => [
        'theme' => 'blue',
        'show_welcome' => true
    ]

Use this method to set a preference for the currently authenticated user

UserPreferences::set(string [setting], [value]);

If a default preference value is set in the config file, the new value must match the type of the default value.

If no default value exists, any value type can be saved. If the default value type is not matched UserPreferences::save() will return an InvalidArgumentException.

Use this method to reset the currently authenticated user to the default preferences found in the config file.

UserPreferences::setDefaultPreferences();

Note: This will not adjust user preferences that do not contain a default value in the config file.

Use this method to reset a single preference, for the currently authenticated user, to the default value found in your config file, if it exists. If no default value is set in the config file, the preference will be removed from the currently authenticated user's record.

UserPreferences::reset(string [setting]);

This method will return true if a default value was set from the config file. If no default value was found, this method will return false

Use this method to get the value of a preference for the currently authenticated user.

UserPreferences::get(string [setting]);

Use this method to get all of the currently authenticated user's preferences

UserPreferences::all()

To check if the currently authenticated user has a specific preference set, you can call

UserPreferences::has(string [setting]);

This will return true if a value was found, false if not.

All preferences are saved automatically when UserPreferences::set(); is called.

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

This Laravel package is free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE