Laravel abbreviations

Simply create human-readable abbreviations / acronyms for any model, or abbreviations / acronyms in general.

Installation

This package supports auto discovery. For laravel versions < 5.5, add the following line in config/app.php providers section:

Kbs1\Abbreviations\AbbreviationsServiceProvider::class,

Add the following line in config/app.php aliases section:

'Abbreviation' => Kbs1\Abbreviations\Abbreviation::class,

Usage

In laravel models, use the following trait:

use \Kbs1\Abbreviations\HasAbbreviation;

Now you can get model's abbreviation simply by getting the $model->abbreviation attribute.

Customising the abbreviated attribute

Trait by default uses the name attribute of a model. You can override this behavior by overriding the abbreviationAttribute method in your model code.

Generic abbreviations / acronyms

Anywhere in your application, you can call Abbreviation::make($string) or abbreviate($string) helper to generate abbreviations on the fly.

Configuration

After publishing the config with php artisan vendor:publish --tag=abbreviations, you can define maximum generated abbreviations length (default 3), generated abbreviations case (uppercase, lowercase or original), whether you prefer to include digits in generated abbreviations (default false), and whether to remove existing abbreviations from source string before processing (default true).

See comments in published configuration file for further details.

Examples

Using default configuration:

• abbreviate('somestring') == 'SOM'
• abbreviate('somestring w/ meaning') == 'SM'
• abbreviate('somestring w/o meaning') == 'SM'
• abbreviate('somestring incl. others') == 'SO'
• abbreviate('Ing. Name Surname, PhD.') == 'NS'
• abbreviate('[7] => somestring') == 'SOM'
• abbreviate('K-9 mail widget') == 'KMW'
• abbreviate('GPSLoc') == 'GL'
• abbreviate('14Logistics internal system') == 'LIS'
• abbreviate('#1411: fix fooBar status') == 'FFB'
• abbreviate('#1234: deploy') == 'DEP'
• abbreviate('#1234:777: 500 words 7 characters long') == 'WCL'
• abbreviate('#1234:777: 500 words 700b') == 'WB'
• abbreviate('#1234:777: 500') == '#12'
• abbreviate('123456abcde') == 'ABC'

Allowing digits:

• abbreviate('K-9 mail widget') == 'KMW' (non digit matching is always preferred)
• abbreviate('[7] => somestring') == '7S'
• abbreviate('#1234: deploy') == '1D'
• abbreviate('#1234:777: 500 words 700b') == '175'
• abbreviate('#1234:777: 500') == '175'
• abbreviate('123456abcde') == '123'