Laravel Versionable (Polymorphic User Fork)

Fork of overtrue/laravel-versionable with polymorphic user support

This fork extends the original package to support polymorphic user relationships, allowing you to track versions created by different user model types (e.g., Admin, Associate, EndUser, etc.) in applications with multiple authentication guards.

It's a minimalist way to make your model support version history, and it's very simple to revert to the specified version.

What's Different in This Fork?

This fork replaces the single-user foreign key relationship with a polymorphic relationship, enabling:

• Support for multiple user model types (Admin, Associate, OrganisationUser, etc.)
• Automatic tracking of which user type created each version
• Compatibility with applications using multiple authentication guards
• No configuration needed - uses auth()->user() to automatically detect the authenticated user

Key Changes:

1. Migration: Uses morphs('user') instead of unsignedBigInteger('user_id')
2. Version Model: Uses morphTo() for the user relationship instead of belongsTo()
3. Configuration: Removed user_model and user_foreign_key config options (no longer needed)
4. Versionable Trait: New getVersionUser() method returns the authenticated user model

Requirement

1. PHP >= 8.1.0
2. laravel/framework >= 9.0

Features

• Keep the specified number of versions.
• Whitelist and blacklist for versionable attributes.
• Easily revert to the specified version.
• Record only changed attributes.
• Easy to customize.

Installing

Run:-

composer require visualbuilder/versionable

First, publish the config file and migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Visualbuilder\Versionable\ServiceProvider"

Then run this command to create a database migration:

php artisan migrate

Usage

Add Visualbuilder\Versionable\Versionable trait to the model and set versionable attributes:

use Visualbuilder\Versionable\Versionable;

class Post extends Model
{
    use Versionable;

    /**
     * Versionable attributes
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $versionable = ['title', 'content'];

    // Or use a blacklist
    //protected $dontVersionable = ['created_at', 'updated_at'];

    <...>
}

Versions will be created on the versionable model saved.

$post = Post::create(['title' => 'version1', 'content' => 'version1 content']);
$post->update(['title' => 'version2']);

Polymorphic user example

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;
use Visualbuilder\Versionable\Version;

class Admin extends Authenticatable
{
    use SoftDeletes;

    public function versions()
    {
        return $this->morphMany(Version::class, 'user');
    }
}

Once you attach the trait to a versionable model, versions automatically store the currently authenticated user.

$admin = Admin::find(1);
auth()->login($admin);

$post = Post::create(['title' => 'Draft', 'content' => '...']);
$version = $post->latestVersion;

$version->user; // instance of Admin
$admin->versions()->latest()->get(); // morphMany inverse relationship

You can repeat the same pattern for any additional authenticatable model that should appear as a version author.

Get versions

$post->versions; // all versions
$post->latestVersion; // latest version
// or
$post->lastVersion;

$post->versions->first(); // first version
// or
$post->firstVersion;

$post->versionAt('2022-10-06 12:00:00'); // get version from a specific time
// or
$post->versionAt(\Carbon\Carbon::create(2022, 10, 6, 12));

Revert

Revert a model instance to the specified version:

$post->getVersion(3)->revert();

// or

$post->revertToVersion(3);

Revert without saving

$version = $post->versions()->first();

$post = $version->revertWithoutSaving();

Remove versions

// soft delete
$post->removeVersion($versionId = 1);
$post->removeVersions($versionIds = [1, 2, 3]);
$post->removeAllVersions();

// force delete
$post->forceRemoveVersion($versionId = 1);
$post->forceRemoveVersions($versionIds = [1, 2, 3]);
$post->forceRemoveAllVersions();

Restore deleted version by id

$post->restoreTrashedVersion($id);

Temporarily disable versioning

// create
Post::withoutVersion(function () use (&$post) {
    Post::create(['title' => 'version1', 'content' => 'version1 content']);
});

// update
Post::withoutVersion(function () use ($post) {
    $post->update(['title' => 'updated']);
});

Custom Version Store strategy

You can set the following different version policies through property protected $versionStrategy:

• Visualbuilder\Versionable\VersionStrategy::DIFF - Version content will only contain changed attributes (default strategy).
• Visualbuilder\Versionable\VersionStrategy::SNAPSHOT - Version content will contain all versionable attribute values.

Show diff between the two versions

$diff = $post->getVersion(1)->diff($post->getVersion(2));

$diff is a object Visualbuilder\Versionable\Diff, it based on jfcherng/php-diff.

You can render the diff to many formats, and all formats result will be like follows:

[
    $attribute1 => $diffOfAttribute1,
    $attribute2 => $diffOfAttribute2,
    ...
    $attributeN => $diffOfAttributeN,
]

toArray()

$diff->toArray();
//
[
    "name" => [
        "old" => "John",
        "new" => "Doe",
    ],
    "age" => [
        "old" => 25,
        "new" => 26,
    ],
]

Other formats

toArray(array $differOptions = [], array $renderOptions = [], bool $stripTags = false): array
toText(array $differOptions = [], array $renderOptions = [], bool $stripTags = false): array
toJsonText(array $differOptions = [], array $renderOptions = [], bool $stripTags = false): array
toContextText(array $differOptions = [], array $renderOptions = [], bool $stripTags = false): array
toHtml(array $differOptions = [], array $renderOptions = [], bool $stripTags = false): array
toInlineHtml(array $differOptions = [], array $renderOptions = [], bool $stripTags = false): array
toJsonHtml(array $differOptions = [], array $renderOptions = [], bool $stripTags = false): array
toSideBySideHtml(array $differOptions = [], array $renderOptions = [], bool $stripTags = false): array

Note

$differOptions and $renderOptions are optional, you can set them following the README of jfcherng/php-diff. $stripTags allows you to remove HTML tags from the Diff, helpful when you don't want to show tags.

Using custom version model

You can define $versionModel in a model, that used this trait to change the model(table) for versions

Note

Model MUST extend class \Visualbuilder\Versionable\Version;

<?php

class PostVersion extends \Visualbuilder\Versionable\Version
{
    //
}

Update the model attribute $versionModel:

<?php
namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Visualbuilder\Versionable\Versionable;

class Post extends Model
{
    use Versionable;

    public string $versionModel = PostVersion::class;
}

Integrations

• mansoorkhan96/filament-versionable Effortlessly manage revisions of your Eloquent models in Filament.

Credits

This package is a fork of overtrue/laravel-versionable.

All credit for the original implementation goes to @overtrue. This fork only adds polymorphic user support.

License

MIT