⚡You can do some pretty cool stuff with enums in PHP and Laravel. In this thread, I’ve collected some of the useful stuff, such as: - Backed enums - Using enums as factories - Validation - Enum route binding - Model attribute casts 🧵Keep Reading
1/7 Backed Enums This is a very basic backed enum with string values:
2/7 Enums As Factories You probably already know that. but did you know that you can use it as a factory? You can combine enums with the match operator. For example, if you’re using the strategy pattern:
3/7 Enum Validation Since backed enums have a string value, you can easily validate these values in a request:
4/7 Route Binding Once again, since backed enums have string values you can use them in route bindings! This is very useful if you have endpoints that filter based on some status:
5/7 Model Casts To be able to use enums in where expression (like the example above) you can cast attributes to enums:
6/7 Default Attribute Values You can even specify default attribute values with enums. In this example, if you instantiate a new Post, the status will always be ‘draft’ by default:
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