Resources ​

What are resources?

For each of the Eloquent models you wish to use with Runway, you’ll need to define a ‘resource’.

A resource basically tells Runway about the model and how you’d like it to be configured - which blueprint to use, whether it should be manageable in the CP, etc.

Defining resources

You can define resources inside the configuration file published during installation. It’s located in config/runway.php.

<?php
 
return [
 
    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Resources
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Configure the resources (models) you'd like to be available in Runway.
    |
    */
 
    'resources' => [
        //
    ],
 
];
<?php
 
return [
 
    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Resources
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Configure the resources (models) you'd like to be available in Runway.
    |
    */
 
    'resources' => [
        //
    ],
 
];

There three steps to defining a Runway Resource: first you need to add it to Runway's resources array like so:

'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
    ],
],
'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
    ],
],

Second, you need to add the HasRunwayResource trait to your Eloquent model.

// app/Models/Order.php
 
use StatamicRadPack\Runway\Traits\HasRunwayResource; 
 
class Order extends Model
{
    use HasRunwayResource; 
}
// app/Models/Order.php
 
use StatamicRadPack\Runway\Traits\HasRunwayResource; 
 
class Order extends Model
{
    use HasRunwayResource; 
}

Finally, you can start adding fields to your resource's blueprint. To learn more about using Blueprints in Runway, please review the Blueprints page.

Hot Tip

If you're moving a collection to the database, use the php please runway:import-collection command. It'll help you set up everything you need, including moving your entries to the database.

Configuring resources

There’s about a dozen configuration options available for resources, they are all documented below.

Hidden

By default, Runway provides a Control Panel interface for managing your models.

If you’d like to hide the CP Nav Item that’s registered for this model, just say so:

'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'hidden' => true,
    ],
],
'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'hidden' => true,
    ],
],

Bear in mind, this will just hide the Nav Item for the CP interface, it won’t actually get rid of the routes being registered. If someone knows where to look, they could still use the CP to manage your models (they could guess the URL).

Route

If you want to take advantage of Runway’s front-end routing abilities, you can pass in a route to enable it.

Your route can include Antlers code - the variables available are driven by the resource’s blueprint.

'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'route' => '/my-orders/{{ id }}',
    ],
],
'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'route' => '/my-orders/{{ id }}',
    ],
],

Templates & Layouts

You may also specify the template and layout you want to use when front-end routing.

'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'route' => '/my-orders/{{ id }}',
        'template' => 'orders.show',
        'layout' => 'default',
    ],
],
'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'route' => '/my-orders/{{ id }}',
        'template' => 'orders.show',
        'layout' => 'default',
    ],
],

Read Only

You may also specify if you want a resource to be 'read only' - eg. users will not be able to create models and when editing, all fields will be marked as read only and no save button will be displayed.

'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'read_only' => true,
    ],
],
'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'read_only' => true,
    ],
],

Ordering

Sometimes you may want to change the order that your models are returned in the Control Panel listing table. You can use the order_by and order_by_direction configuration options to tell Runway the order you wish models to be returned.

'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
 
        // In this case, orders will the highest total will be displayed first.
        'order_by' => 'total',
        'order_by_direction' => 'DESC',
    ],
],
'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
 
        // In this case, orders will the highest total will be displayed first.
        'order_by' => 'total',
        'order_by_direction' => 'DESC',
    ],
],

Title field

When Runway displays models inside inside the Control Panel (eg. in relationship fields, in search), it'll default to showing the first listable field it can find, based on your blueprint.

If you'd like to specify a different field, you may do so by setting the title_field option on your resource.

'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'title_field' => 'name',
    ],
],
'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'title_field' => 'name',
    ],
],

Search Index

The search_index option allows you to specify a search index which should be used when search models in the Control Panel listing table.

'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'search_index' => 'my_search_index',
    ],
],
'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'search_index' => 'my_search_index',
    ],
],

Eager Loading

To help with performance, Runway will automatically "eager load" any Eloquent relationships it knows about based on the fields you've defined in your blueprint.

However, if you wish, you can override the relationships that get eager loaded by providing the with option on your resource:

'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'with' => ['lineItems', 'customer'],
    ],
],
'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'with' => ['lineItems', 'customer'],
    ],
],

Publish States

If you're writing content that you would like to be able to store without publishing right away, you can add the published config option to your resource's config array. It'll allow you to have published & unpublished models, with all of the status indicators and filtering you'd expect.

'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'published' => true, // Assumes the model has a `published` boolean column.
        'published' => 'is_active', // Otherwise, you can specify the column name.
    ],
],
'resources' => [
    \App\Models\Order::class => [
        'name' => 'Orders',
        'published' => true, // Assumes the model has a `published` boolean column.
        'published' => 'is_active', // Otherwise, you can specify the column name.
    ],
],

By default, it'll use a published column in the database to keep track of the model's "status". You're free to change the name of this column as needed.

Note!

Runway won't automatically add this database column for you, you will need to add it yourself: php Schema::table('products', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->boolean('published'); });

Prevent creating new models

If you want to prevent new models being created via the Control Panel, you can mark the resource's blueprint as "Hidden":

hide: true
hide: true

Actions

In much the same way with entries, you can create custom Actions which will be usable in the listing tables provided by Runway.

You can register them in the same way as you normally would.

The only thing that’s different is the fact that instead of filtering down to just Entry objects for example, you can filter by your model, like Order.

use App\Models\Order;
 
public function visibleTo($item)
{
    return $item instanceof Order;
}
use App\Models\Order;
 
public function visibleTo($item)
{
    return $item instanceof Order;
}

Queries

Every query made by Runway to your model will call the runway query scope. This allows you to easily filter the models returned by Runway.

class YourModel extends Model
{
    public function scopeRunway($query)
    {
        return $query->where('something', true);
    }
}
class YourModel extends Model
{
    public function scopeRunway($query)
    {
        return $query->where('something', true);
    }
}

If you only want to filter models returned in the Control Panel, see the runwayListing and runwaySearch scopes documented on the Control Panel page.

Disabling global scopes

By default, Runway will observe all global scopes registered on your model. However, this might not be ideal if you want to access, for example, soft deleted models in Runway.

You can work around this by calling the withoutGlobalScopes method in the runway query scope:

class YourModel extends Model
{
    public function scopeRunway($query)
    {
        // Disables ALL global scopes
        return $query->withoutGlobalScopes();
 
        // Disables a specific global scope
        return $query->withoutGlobalScope([ActiveScope::class]);
    }
}
class YourModel extends Model
{
    public function scopeRunway($query)
    {
        // Disables ALL global scopes
        return $query->withoutGlobalScopes();
 
        // Disables a specific global scope
        return $query->withoutGlobalScope([ActiveScope::class]);
    }
}

You can find more information about global scopes on the Laravel documentation.

List of Resources

If you're unsure about the handle of a resource, you may want to check it. You may do so with the php please runway:resources command which will display a list of Runway Resources.

Resource List command