Laravel Settings

Production-ready, super-simple settings management for Laravel applications.

Store settings in the database with full support for per-user scoping, typed values, caching, and a clean enum-driven API.

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 11, 12, or 13

Installation

composer require abdelhamiderrahmouni/laravel-settings

Publish and run the migration:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=settings-migrations
php artisan migrate

Configuration

Publish the config file to customise the cache driver, TTL, cache key prefix, and table name:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=settings-config

// config/settings.php
return [
    'cache' => [
        'driver' => env('SETTINGS_CACHE_DRIVER', 'file'),
        'ttl'    => env('SETTINGS_CACHE_TTL', 3600),
        'prefix' => env('SETTINGS_CACHE_PREFIX', 'settings'),
    ],
    'table' => env('SETTINGS_TABLE', 'settings'),
];

Defining Settings

Create a settings enum with the settings:make command:

php artisan settings:make GeneralSettings

This generates app/Settings/GeneralSettings.php. Fill in your cases:

namespace App\Settings;

use Settings\Contracts\SettingDefinition;

enum GeneralSettings: string implements SettingDefinition
{
    case SiteName       = 'site_name';
    case MaintenanceMode = 'maintenance_mode';
    case MaxUploadSize  = 'max_upload_size';

    public function group(): string
    {
        return 'general';
    }

    public function type(): string
    {
        return match ($this) {
            self::SiteName        => 'string',
            self::MaintenanceMode => 'boolean',
            self::MaxUploadSize   => 'integer',
        };
    }

    public function default(): mixed
    {
        return match ($this) {
            self::SiteName        => 'My App',
            self::MaintenanceMode => false,
            self::MaxUploadSize   => 10,
        };
    }

    public function label(): string
    {
        return match ($this) {
            self::SiteName        => 'Site Name',
            self::MaintenanceMode => 'Maintenance Mode',
            self::MaxUploadSize   => 'Max Upload Size (MB)',
        };
    }
}

Supported types (Eloquent cast strings): string, integer, boolean, float, array, json.

Usage

Reading settings

use App\Settings\GeneralSettings;
use Settings\Facades\Settings;

// Returns the stored value, cast to the declared type
Settings::get(GeneralSettings::SiteName);

// Returns 'Fallback' if no record exists in the DB
Settings::get(GeneralSettings::SiteName, 'Fallback');

Reading all settings in a group

Pass the enum class-string to retrieve every setting in the group as a single array. One DB query is issued and all values are cast and cached individually.

$settings = Settings::get(GeneralSettings::class);
// [
//     'site_name'        => 'My App',
//     'maintenance_mode' => false,
//     'max_upload_size'  => 10,
// ]

Any key without a DB record falls back to the enum's declared default.

Writing settings

Settings::set(GeneralSettings::SiteName, 'My App');
Settings::set(GeneralSettings::MaintenanceMode, true);
Settings::set(GeneralSettings::MaxUploadSize, 25);

Writing multiple settings at once

Pass the enum class-string and an array of case value => value pairs. Unknown keys are silently ignored; each recognised key is validated against the enum.

Settings::set(GeneralSettings::class, [
    'site_name'        => 'My App',
    'maintenance_mode' => true,
    'max_upload_size'  => 25,
]);

Deleting settings

// Removes the DB row. Subsequent get() calls return the enum default.
Settings::forget(GeneralSettings::SiteName);

Per-user settings

Scope any operation to a specific user with for(). This includes bulk get and set:

Settings::for($user)->get(GeneralSettings::SiteName);
Settings::for($user)->set(GeneralSettings::SiteName, 'Their App');
Settings::for($user)->forget(GeneralSettings::SiteName);

// Bulk operations are scoped too
Settings::for($user)->get(GeneralSettings::class);
Settings::for($user)->set(GeneralSettings::class, ['site_name' => 'Their App']);

Global settings and per-user settings are stored and retrieved independently.

Dependency injection

The SettingsManager is bound as a singleton in the container and can be injected directly:

use Settings\SettingsManager;

class UpdateSiteNameAction
{
    public function __construct(private readonly SettingsManager $settings) {}

    public function handle(string $name): void
    {
        $this->settings->set(GeneralSettings::SiteName, $name);
    }
}

Caching

Settings are cached per-key after the first read. The cache is automatically invalidated when set() or forget() is called — no manual cache management needed.

Cache keys follow the format: {prefix}:{group}.{name} (or {prefix}:{group}.{name}:{user_id} for per-user settings).

Customising the stub

To customise the enum template generated by settings:make, publish the stub:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=settings-stubs

This copies stubs/settings.stub into your project. The settings:make command will use your published stub automatically.

Testing

The package test suite uses Pest:

composer test

License

MIT — see LICENSE for details.