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62 lines
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## Counter Cache
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Brings the ruby concept of "counter caching" to [Laravel](http://laravel.com/docs).
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[](https://packagist.org/packages/nodes/core)
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[](https://packagist.org/packages/nodes/core)
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[](https://packagist.org/packages/nodes/core)
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[](https://github.com/nodes-php/core/issues)
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[](https://packagist.org/packages/nodes/core)
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[](https://github.com/nodes-php/counter-cache/stargazers)
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[](https://github.com/nodes-php/counter-cache/watchers)
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[](https://github.com/nodes-php/counter-cache/network)
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## Introduction
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One thing we at [Nodes](http://nodesagency.com) have been missing in [Laravel](http://laravel.com/docs) is the concept of "counter caching".
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Laravel comes "out of the box" with the [increment](http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/queries#updates)/[decrement](http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/queries#updates) methods on it's [Eloquent](http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent) models. But you'll need to manually execute these methods everytime, you've saved/delete stuff with your model.
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Since the [increment](http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/queries#updates)/[decrement](http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/queries#updates) methods always +1/-1, you can't 100% rely on these as cached value.
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What if you forgot to execute the decrement method when you deleted a row. Or what if someone deleted a row directly from the database, then your count would be "out of sync".
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Therefore we've created this package which brings "counter caching" to [Laravel](http://laravel.com/docs).
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The difference between this package and Laravel's [increment](http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/queries#updates)/[decrement](http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/queries#updates) is that our package actually generates and fires a SQL count statement, that counts the entries and updates the desired column with the result.
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This way you're always 100% sure that the value in your "counter cache" column is correct.
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## Installation
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To install this package you will need:
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* Laravel 5.1+
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* PHP 5.5.9+
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You must then modify your `composer.json` file and run `composer update` to include the latest version of the package in your project.
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```
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"require": {
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"nodes/counter-cache": "^0.1"
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}
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```
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Or you can run the composer require command from your terminal.
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```
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composer require nodes/counter-cache
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```
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## Usage
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To do.
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## Developers / Maintainers
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This package is developed and maintained by the PHP team at [Nodes Agency](http://nodesagency.com)
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[](https://twitter.com/nodesphp) [](https://twitter.com/nodesphp)
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### License
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This package is open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) |