nova 4 dependency container

A Laravel Nova 4 form container for grouping fields that depend on other field values. Dependencies can be set on any field type or value.

Features:

• working form validation inside unlimited nested containers
• support of ebess/advanced-nova-media-library

This plugin is based on epartment/nova-dependency-container and only supports Nova 4.x and PHP 8.x.

Demo

Installation

The package can be installed through Composer.

composer require alexwenzel/nova-dependency-container

Usage

1. Add the Alexwenzel\DependencyContainer\HasDependencies trait to your Nova Resource.
2. Add the Alexwenzel\DependencyContainer\DependencyContainer to your Nova Resource fields() method.
3. Add the Alexwenzel\DependencyContainer\ActionHasDependencies trait to your Nova Actions that you wish to use dependencies on.

class Page extends Resource
{
    use HasDependencies;

    public function fields(Request $request)
    {
        return [
            Select::make('Name format', 'name_format')->options([
                0 => 'First Name',
                1 => 'First Name / Last Name',
                2 => 'Full Name'
            ])->displayUsingLabels(),

            DependencyContainer::make([
                Text::make('First Name', 'first_name')
            ])->dependsOn('name_format', 0),
        ];
    }
}

Available dependencies

The package supports these kinds of dependencies:

1. ->dependsOn('field', 'value')
2. ->dependsOnNot('field', 'value')
3. ->dependsOnEmpty('field')
4. ->dependsOnNotEmpty('field')
5. ->dependsOnNullOrZero('field')
6. ->dependsOnIn('field', [array])
7. ->dependsOnNotIn('field', [array])

These dependencies can be combined by chaining the methods on the DependencyContainer field:

DependencyContainer::make([
  // dependency fields
])
->dependsOn('field1', 'value1')
->dependsOnNotEmpty('field2')
->dependsOn('field3', 'value3')

The fields used as dependencies can be of any Laravel Nova field type. Currently only two relation field types are supported, BelongsTo and MorphTo.

Here is an example using a checkbox:

BelongsTo dependency

If we follow the example of a Post model belongsTo a User model, taken from Novas documentation BelongsTo, the dependency setup has the following construction.

We use the singular form of the belongsTo resource in lower case, in this example Post becomes post. Then we define in dot notation, the property of the resource we want to depend on. In this example we just use the id property, as in post.id.

BelongsTo::make('Post'),

DependencyContainer::make([
    Boolean::make('Visible')
])
->dependsOn('post.id', 2)

When the Post resource with id 2 is being selected, a Boolean field will appear.

BelongsToMany dependency

A BelongsToMany setup is similar to that of a BelongsTo.

The dependsOn method should be pointing to the name of the intermediate table. If it is called role_user, the setup should be

BelongsToMany::make('Roles')
	->fields(function() {
		return [
			DependencyContainer::make([
			    // pivot field rules_all
			    Boolean::make('Rules All', 'rules_all')
			])
			->dependsOn('role_user', 1)
		]
	}),

If the pivot field name occurs multiple times, consider using custom intermediate table models and define it in the appropiate model relation methods. The only reliable solution I found was using mutators to get/set a field which was being used multiple times. Although this may seem ugly, the events which should be fired on the intermediate model instance, when using an Observer, would work unreliable with every new release of Nova.

If Nova becomes reliable firing eloquent events on the intermediate table, I will update this examples with a more elegant approach using events instead.

Here is an (ugly) example of a get/set mutator setup for an intermediate table using a pivot field called type.

// model User
class User ... { 
    public function roles() {
        return $this->belongsToMany->using(RoleUser::class)->withPivot('rules_all');
    }
}

// model Role
class Role ... { 
    public function users() {
        return $this->belongsToMany->using(RoleUser::class)->withPivot('rules_all');
    }
}

// intermediate table
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\Pivot;
class RoleUser extends Pivot {  

	protected $table 'role_user';

	public function getType1Attribute() {
	    return $this->type;
	}

	public function setType1Attribute($value) {
		$this->attributes['type'] = $value;
	}

	// ... repeat for as many types as needed
}

And now for the dependency container.

->fields(function() {
	return [
		DependencyContainer::make([
		    // pivot field rules_all
		    Select::make('Type', 'type_1')
		    	->options([ 
		    		/* some options */ 
	    		])
		    	->displayUsingLabels()
		])
		->dependsOn('role_user', 1),
	
		DependencyContainer::make([
		    // pivot field rules_all
		    Select::make('Type', 'type_2')
		    	->options([ 
		    		/* different options */ 
	    		])
		    	->displayUsingLabels()
		])
		->dependsOn('role_user', 2),
		
		// .. and so on
	]
}),

MorphTo dependency

A similar example taken from Novas documentation for MorphTo is called commentable. It uses 3 Models; Comment, Video and Post. Here Comment has the morphable fields commentable_id and commentable_type

For a MorphTo dependency, the following construction is needed.

Commentable becomes lower case commentable and the value to depend on is the resource singular form. In this example the dependency container will add two additional fields, Additional Text and Visible, only when the Post resource is selected.

MorphTo::make('Commentable')->types([
    Post::class,
    Video::class,
]),

DependencyContainer::make([
    Text::make('Additional Text', 'additional'),
    Boolean::make('Visible', 'visible')
])
->dependsOn('commentable', 'Post') 

Workaround for index or details page

Use the field within resource methods fieldsForCreate or fieldsForUpdate:

DependencyContainer::make([
    Select::make('Parent name', 'parent_id')
        ->options(...)
])->dependsOn('code', 'column'),

To display some values on index or details page, use any field you like to display the value within resource methods fieldsForIndex or fieldsForDetail:

Select::make('Parent name', 'parent_id')
        ->options(...),
        
// OR

Text::make('Parent name', 'parent_id'),

License

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