How to Implement PHP Money Calculations in Laravel Model Objects - Laravel Money Package package blog

About the Laravel Money Package Package

The package Laravel Money Package is one of the few PHP packages that was considered notable recently because it does something that is worth paying attention.

The basic purpose is: Manipulate model attribute as money values

Here follows in more detail what it does:

This package can manipulate model attribute as money values.

It provides a trait that can be used in model classes of Laravel framework based applications to treat specific attributes as money amounts. Currently it can:

- Format the money attributes to display them in a given currency
- Perform money operations like withdraw an amount (subtraction) or deposit an amount (addition)
- Retrieve model class objects that match certain conditions of the values of the money attributes, like finding all objects with money attributes with given values
- Perform money amount operations with all objects of a model class with money attributes, like calculating the sum of the amounts of money of all objects of a model class

Conclusion

The Laravel Money Package can be downloaded from download page or be installed using the PHP Composer tool following instructions in the Composer install instructions page.

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