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roelofr/laravel-encryption-cast
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An Eloquent cast to encrypt and decrypt data, whilst still allowing your own casts

v1.2.0(5y ago)21.2kMITPHPPHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

Since Aug 13Pushed 3y agoCompare

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Encryption Cast for Laravel
===========================

[](#encryption-cast-for-laravel)

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A super-simple, fully tested database encryption system, which allows for extra conversions to take place afterwards.

End of Life
-----------

[](#end-of-life)

This package has reached it's end of life. [Laravel now supports encryption out-of-the-box](https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/eloquent-mutators#encrypted-casting), so adding a separate package that does the same is useless.

License
-------

[](#license)

The software is licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE.md).

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

This project requires Laravel 7.x and PHP 7.4 or newer. You should also update your database schemas to allow for encrypted data. Encrypted data is base64-encoded, and might be significantly longer than the same data as, for example, JSON.

It's recommended to use long `VARCHAR` fields or even `TEXT` fields.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Just require it via composer, it doesn't register a service provider.

```
composer require roelofr/laravel-encryption-cast

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

This class contains a two-way cast that takes extra casts as first and only argument. `null`-values are not encrypted.

### Encrypted strings

[](#encrypted-strings)

To encrypt the `phone_number` field, simply cast it.

```
protected $casts = [
    'phone_number' => \Roelofr\EncryptionCast\Casts\EncryptedAttribute::class
];
```

### Encrypted basic types

[](#encrypted-basic-types)

Say we have a `date_of_birth` field, we can cast that as a date.

```
protected $casts = [
    'date_of_birth' => \Roelofr\EncryptionCast\Casts\EncryptedAttribute::class . ':date'
];
```

### Encrypted collections

[](#encrypted-collections)

Now, say we have an `address` which is a collection, we can also cast it like that.

```
protected $casts = [
    'address' => \Roelofr\EncryptionCast\Casts\EncryptedAttribute::class . ':collection'
];
```

### Encrypted complex models

[](#encrypted-complex-models)

Now, lastly, say you made a [custom cast](https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/eloquent-mutators#custom-casts) that casts the `medication` field to some other type, and named it `App\Casts\MedicationCast`, you can send that as a second argument.

```
protected $casts = [
    'medication' => \Roelofr\EncryptionCast\Casts\EncryptedAttribute::class . ':' . \App\Casts\MedicationCast::class
];
```

And that's about it.

Compatibility
-------------

[](#compatibility)

To ease development you can use one of the casts in the `Compat` namespace. These are included:

- For [`austinheap/laravel-database-encryption`](https://github.com/austinheap/laravel-database-encryption) you can use `AustinHeapEncryptedAttribute`.

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

If you found any bugs or issues and can help, please open an issue. The code is linted for code style and coverage is exected to be >95% at all times.

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~9 days

Total

4

Last Release

2071d ago

### Community

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###  Code Quality

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