How to make a Trait in Laravel

Question

Where to make the file if i want to use this trait on my Models

How should this file look like if i want to have this trait inside:

trait FormatDates
{
          


        

Answer 1

To create a trait by command I do it like this:

  php artisan make:command TraitMakeCommand

then you have this command in app/Console/Commands

it will create this commands extending from Command, but you have to change it to GeneratorCommand that is the one used to create Classes, so instead:

  use Illuminate\Console\Command;
  class TraitMakeCommand extends Command{

you should have this:

  use Illuminate\Console\GeneratorCommand;
  class TraitMakeCommand extends GeneratorCommand{

then, delete __construct() and handle() methods cause you are not gonna need them.

You need to create a file in app/Console/Commands/stubs called traits.stub which is going to be the base for your trait:

and the code should be like this:

      /**
 * The name and signature of the console command.
 *
 * @var string
 */
protected $signature = 'make:trait {name}';

/**
 * The console command description.
 *
 * @var string
 */
protected $description = 'Create a new trait';

/**
 * The type of class being generated.
 *
 * @var string
 */
protected $type = 'Trait';

/**
 * Get the stub file for the generator.
 *
 * @return string
 */
protected function getStub()
{
    return __DIR__ . '/stubs/trait.stub';
}

/**
 * Get the default namespace for the class.
 *
 * @param string $rootNamespace
 *
 * @return string
 */
protected function getDefaultNamespace($rootNamespace)
{
    return $rootNamespace . '\Traits';
}

After all this, you can create a trait with this command:

php artisan make:trait nameOfTheTrait