Model Annotation for Laravel 5

ModelAnnotation puts database schema aside with your model files for easy reference.

Add annotation to plain Laravel model files

<?php
/* MODEL ANNOTATION:
@property	$id                      Type: bigint(20) unsigned      Extra: auto_increment      Default: null      Key: PRI
@property	$name                    Type: varchar(255)             Extra:                     Default: null      Key: nil
@property	$email                   Type: varchar(255)             Extra:                     Default: null      Key: UNI
@property	$email_verified_at       Type: timestamp                Extra:                     Default: null      Key: nil
@property	$password                Type: varchar(255)             Extra:                     Default: null      Key: nil
@property	$remember_token          Type: varchar(100)             Extra:                     Default: null      Key: nil
@property	$created_at              Type: timestamp                Extra:                     Default: null      Key: nil
@property	$updated_at              Type: timestamp                Extra:                     Default: null      Key: nil

END MODEL ANNOTATION */

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    /**

Usage

This package only works with MySQL for now.

• Make sure you have backup or VCS.

• Modify composer.json file, include following line for require section:

"require": {
    ...
    "qsun/model-annotation": "dev-master"
}

• Run composer update to install newly added package

• Add Service Provider in app.php:

'providers' => [
    ....
    qsun\ModelAnnotation\AnnotationServiceProvider::class
]

• Run php artisan annotate:models to annotate model files