Introduction

A 'session & DB driver' for Laravel Pennant for feature flags pre- and post-user authentication.

Requirements

• Laravel 10 or higher
• PHP 8.1 or higher
• Pennant 1.6 or higher

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require aladler/laravel-pennant-session-and-db-driver

Add the driver to your config/pennant.php file:

'stores' => [

    'session_and_database' => [
        'driver' => 'session_and_database',
        'table' => 'features',
    ],

],

Register the driver using Pennant's extend method (this can be done in the AppServiceProvider's boot method)

public function boot(): void
{
    Feature::extend('session_and_database', function (){
        return new SessionAndDatabaseDriver(
            app()['db'],
            app()['events'],
            config(),
            [],
            app()['session']
        );
    });
}

If you wish this driver to be the default driver, change the default value in config/pennant.php to session_and_database.

'default' => env('PENNANT_STORE', 'session_and_database'),

or put it in your .env file

PENNANT_STORE=session_and_database

Your User model (or any other Authenticatable) must implement the Aladler\LaravelPennantSessionAndDbDriver\Contracts\UserThatHasPreRegisterFeatures interface.

class User extends Authenticable implements UserThatHasPreRegisterFeatures

Usage

You can activate features for guests and after authentication, the feature will be persisted in the database. Or if a feature is activated when a user is logged in, if they log out (or the session times out in the same device), the feature will still be active for them. This allows, for example, to a/b tests features on the registration flow and keep the same experience after registration is completed.

License

This open-sourced software is licensed under the MIT license.