Laravel Form Actions

Laravel Form Actions combines the best features of Spatie's Laravel Data and Laravel's Form Requests, resulting in a powerful and efficient package that simplifies form handling in your Laravel applications.

Installation

You can easily install this package using Composer by running the following command. For more details, visit the Packagist page.

composer require statix-php/laravel-form-actions

Creating FormActions

Similiar to Laravel Form Requests, you can create a new FormAction using Artisan with the following command:

php artisan make:form-action ActionName

This command will generate a ActionName class in the app\Actions directory. The initial content of the class is as follows:

<?php 

namespace App\Actions;

use Statix\FormAction\FormAction;

class ActionName extends FormAction
{
    public function authorized(): bool
    {
        return true;
    }

    public function handle()
    {
        // Do cool things, tell people - Aaron Francis
    }
}

Once the action is created, you can start building it out. Let's demonstrate how to use an action to create a new User.

<?php 

namespace App\Actions;

use App\Models\User;
use Statix\FormAction\FormAction;
use Statix\FormAction\Validation\Rules;

class ActionName extends FormAction
{
    #[Rules(['required', 'string', 'min:3', 'max:255'])] 
    public $name;

    #[Rules(['email', 'unique:users,email'])] 
    public string $email;

    public ?string $timezone;

    public function authorized(): bool 
    {
        return true;
    }

    public function handle(): User
    {
        return User::create([
            'name' => $this->name,
            'email' => $this->email,
            'timezone' => $this->timezone ?? 'UTC',
        ]);
    }
}

With the action in place, let's integrate it into our routes.

// routes/web.php

use App\Actions\ActionName;

Route::post('/register', function(ActionName $action) {

    $user = $action->handle();

    auth()->login($user);

    return redirect()->route('dashboard');
});

No manual authorization or validation calls are required. Just like Laravel FormRequest, the actions automatically handle authorization and validation when they're resolved from the container. (This behavior can be disabled).

Awesome, so now let's write some tests for this action!

Testing

composer test

Changelog

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

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please reach out to me directly for any potential security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• Wyatt Castaneda
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.