calebporzio/sushi

Eloquent's missing "array" driver. Sometimes you want to use Eloquent, but without dealing with a database.

Install

composer require calebporzio/sushi

Use

Using this package consists of two steps:

1. Add the Sushi trait to a model.
2. Add a $rows property to the model.

That's it.

class State extends Model
{
    use \Sushi\Sushi;
 
    protected $rows = [
        [
            'abbr' => 'NY',
            'name' => 'New York',
        ],
        [
            'abbr' => 'CA',
            'name' => 'California',
        ],
    ];
}

Now, you can use this model anywhere you like, and it will behave as if you created a table with the rows you provided.

$stateName = State::whereAbbr('NY')->first()->name;

This is really useful for "Fixture" data, like states, countries, zip codes, user_roles, sites_settings, etc...