Filament Plugin Essentials

A collection of essential traits that streamline Filament plugin development by taking care of the boilerplate, so you can focus on shipping real features faster

Table of Contents

• Filament Plugin Essentials
  • Features
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • For Plugin Developers
    • 1. Add traits to your plugin class
    • 2. Add matching traits to your forResource classes
    • 3. Set defaults for your plugin (optional)
  • How Plugin Users Can Configure Your Plugin
    • Multi-forResource configuration
    • Dynamic values with closures
  • Plugin & Resource Trait Mapping
  • Configuration Options Provided by Each Trait
    • HasNavigation
    • HasLabels
    • HasGlobalSearch
    • BelongsToParent
    • BelongsToTenant
    • WithMultipleResourceSupport
  • Todo
  • Testing
  • Changelog
  • Contributing
  • Security Vulnerabilities
  • Credits
  • License

Features

• Easily Configure
  • 🎯 Navigation - Complete control over resource navigation (labels, icons, groups, sorting, badges)
  • 🏷️ Label - Model labels, plural forms, title attributes, and casing options
  • 🔍 Global Search - Searchability controls, result limits, and case sensitivity options
  • 👥 Resource Tenant options - Tenant scoping and relationship configuration
  • 🔗 Parent Resource - Hierarchical resource relationships
• ⚙️ Multi-Resource Configuration - Different settings per Resource in a single plugin
• 📦 3-Tier Default System - User overrides → Plugin defaults → Filament defaults
• 🔄 Dynamic Values - Closure support for conditional logic and real-time data
• 🛠️ Developer-Friendly - Minimal boilerplate with maximum customization

Requirements

• Filament 4.x
• PHP 8.2+

Installation

composer require bezhansalleh/filament-plugin-essentials

For Plugin Developers

1. Add traits to your plugin class

<?php

namespace YourVendor\YourPlugin;

use BezhanSalleh\PluginEssentials\Concerns\Plugin;
use Filament\Contracts\Plugin;

class YourPlugin implements Plugin
{
    use Plugin\HasNavigation;
    use Plugin\HasLabels;
    use Plugin\HasGlobalSearch;
    use Plugin\WithMultipleResourceSupport; // For multi-forResource plugins
    
    public static function make(): static
    {
        return app(static::class);
    }
    
    public function getId(): string
    {
        return 'your-plugin';
    }
    
    // ... rest of plugin implementation
}

2. Add matching traits to your forResource classes

<?php

namespace YourVendor\YourPlugin\Resources;

use BezhanSalleh\PluginEssentials\Concerns;
use Filament\Resources\Resource;

class UserResource extends Resource
{
    use Concerns\Resource\HasNavigation;
    use Concerns\Resource\HasLabels;
    use Concerns\Resource\HasGlobalSearch;
    
    protected static ?string $model = User::class;
    
    // Required: Link resource to plugin
    public static function getEssentialsPlugin(): ?YourPlugin
    {
        return YourPlugin::get();
    }
    
    // ... rest of forResource implementation
}

3. Set defaults for your plugin (optional)

class YourPlugin implements Plugin
{
    use HasNavigation, HasLabels, HasGlobalSearch;
    
    protected function getPluginDefaults(): array
    {
        return [
            // Global defaults (apply to all resources)
            'navigationGroup' => 'Your Plugin',
            'navigationIcon' => 'heroicon-o-puzzle-piece',
            'modelLabel' => 'Item',
            'pluralModelLabel' => 'Items',
            'globalSearchResultsLimit' => 25,
            
            // Resource-specific defaults (optional)
            'resources' => [
                UserResource::class => [
                    'modelLabel' => 'User',
                    'pluralModelLabel' => 'Users',
                    'navigationIcon' => 'heroicon-o-users',
                    'globalSearchResultsLimit' => 50,
                ],
                PostResource::class => [
                    'modelLabel' => 'Post',
                    'pluralModelLabel' => 'Posts',
                    'navigationIcon' => 'heroicon-o-document-text',
                    'navigationSort' => 10,
                ],
            ],
        ];
    }
}

How Plugin Users Can Configure Your Plugin

When plugin developers use these traits, users of their plugins get a fluent API to configure them. The available configuration options depend on which traits the plugin developer chose to include.

Configure any plugin that uses these traits:

use YourVendor\YourPlugin\YourPlugin;

public function panel(Panel $panel): Panel
{
    return $panel
        ->plugins([
            YourPlugin::make()
                ->navigationLabel('Custom Label')
                ->navigationIcon('heroicon-o-star')
                ->modelLabel('Custom Item')
                ->globalSearchResultsLimit(30),
        ]);
}

Multi-forResource configuration

YourPlugin::make()
    // Configure UserResource
    ->forResource(UserResource::class)
        ->navigationLabel('Users')
        ->modelLabel('User')
        ->globalSearchResultsLimit(25)
        
    // Configure PostResource  
    ->forResource(PostResource::class)
        ->navigationLabel('Posts')
        ->modelLabel('Article')
        ->globalSearchResultsLimit(10)

Dynamic values with closures

YourPlugin::make()
    ->navigationLabel(fn() => 'Users (' . User::count() . ')')
    ->navigationBadge(fn() => User::whereNull('email_verified_at')->count())
    ->modelLabel(fn() => auth()->user()->isAdmin() ? 'Admin User' : 'User')

Plugin & Resource Trait Mapping

Each plugin trait has a corresponding forResource trait that must be added to your forResource classes:

use BezhanSalleh\PluginEssentials\Concerns\Plugin; // plugin
use BezhanSalleh\PluginEssentials\Concerns\Resource; // forResource

Plugin Trait	Resource Trait
Plugin\HasNavigation	Resource\HasNavigation
Plugin\HasLabels	Resource\HasLabels
Plugin\HasGlobalSearch	Resource\HasGlobalSearch
Plugin\BelongsToParent	Resource\BelongsToParent
Plugin\BelongsToTenant	Resource\BelongsToTenant
Plugin\WithMultipleResourceSupport	(No forResource trait needed - enables multi-forResource configuration)

Configuration Options Provided by Each Trait

HasNavigation

$plugin
    ->navigationLabel('Label')                  // string|Closure|null
    ->navigationIcon('heroicon-o-home')         // string|Closure|null  
    ->activeNavigationIcon('heroicon-s-home')   // string|Closure|null
    ->navigationGroup('Group')                  // string|Closure|null
    ->navigationSort(10)                        // int|Closure|null
    ->navigationBadge('5')                      // string|Closure|null
    ->navigationBadgeColor('success')           // string|array|Closure|null
    ->navigationParentItem('parent.item')       // string|Closure|null
    ->slug('custom-slug')                       // string|Closure|null
    ->registerNavigation(false);                // bool|Closure

Copy-paste defaults:

protected function getPluginDefaults(): array
{
    return [
        'navigationLabel' => 'Your Label',
        'navigationIcon' => 'heroicon-o-home',
        'activeNavigationIcon' => 'heroicon-s-home',
        'navigationGroup' => 'Your Group',
        'navigationSort' => 10,
        'navigationBadge' => null,
        'navigationBadgeColor' => null,
        'navigationParentItem' => null,
        'slug' => null,
        'registerNavigation' => true,
    ];
}

HasLabels

$plugin
    ->modelLabel('Model')                       // string|Closure|null
    ->pluralModelLabel('Models')                // string|Closure|null
    ->recordTitleAttribute('name')              // string|Closure|null
    ->titleCaseModelLabel(false);               // bool|Closure

Copy-paste defaults:

protected function getPluginDefaults(): array
{
    return [
        'modelLabel' => 'Item',
        'pluralModelLabel' => 'Items',
        'recordTitleAttribute' => 'name',
        'titleCaseModelLabel' => true,
    ];
}

HasGlobalSearch

$plugin
    ->globallySearchable(true)                  // bool|Closure
    ->globalSearchResultsLimit(50)             // int|Closure
    ->forceGlobalSearchCaseInsensitive(true)    // bool|Closure|null
    ->splitGlobalSearchTerms(false);            // bool|Closure

Copy-paste defaults:

protected function getPluginDefaults(): array
{
    return [
        'globallySearchable' => true,
        'globalSearchResultsLimit' => 50,
        'forceGlobalSearchCaseInsensitive' => null,
        'splitGlobalSearchTerms' => false,
    ];
}

BelongsToParent

$plugin->parentResource(ParentResource::class); // string|Closure|null

Copy-paste defaults:

protected function getPluginDefaults(): array
{
    return [
        'parentResource' => null,
    ];
}

BelongsToTenant

$plugin
    ->scopeToTenant(true)                       // bool|Closure
    ->tenantRelationshipName('organization')    // string|Closure|null
    ->tenantOwnershipRelationshipName('owner'); // string|Closure|null

Copy-paste defaults:

protected function getPluginDefaults(): array
{
    return [
        'scopeToTenant' => true,
        'tenantRelationshipName' => null,
        'tenantOwnershipRelationshipName' => null,
    ];
}

WithMultipleResourceSupport

Enables per-forResource configuration:

class YourPlugin implements Plugin 
{
    use HasNavigation;
    use WithMultipleResourceSupport;
}

// Usage:
$plugin
    ->forResource(UserResource::class)
        ->navigationLabel('Users')
    ->forResource(PostResource::class)
        ->navigationLabel('Posts');

Todo

• Add support for pages
• ...features you want to see? Open an issue

Testing

composer test:unit
composer finalize

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• Bezhan Salleh
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.