The HasContacts trait

Add the HasContacts trait to any Eloquent model — a user, a company, an order. No schema change per model:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use RoundlyConsulting\Contacts\Concerns\HasContacts;

class User extends Model
{
    use HasContacts;
}

Adding contacts

The trait is sugar over the same manager the Contacts facade uses — every helper goes through it, so values are normalized and validated, auto-primary applies, events fire and Contacts::fake() records the call:

use RoundlyConsulting\Contacts\DataTransferObjects\ContactData;
use RoundlyConsulting\Contacts\Enums\ContactType;

// Add — normalized + validated, primary guaranteed unique per kind.
$user->addEmail('[email protected] ', label: 'Work', primary: true);
$user->addPhone('+421 900 000 000', label: 'Mobile');
$user->addUrl('example.com');
$user->addAddress('12 Main St');

// Any kind, from a DTO
$user->addContact(new ContactData(ContactType::Social, '@janedoe', label: 'Mastodon'));

addEmail(), addPhone(), addUrl(), addAddress() — each takes (string $value, ?string $label = null, bool $primary = false).
addContact(ContactData $data) — any kind, including registered custom kinds.
addStructuredAddress(AddressData $data, ?string $label = null, bool $primary = false) — see Structured addresses.

Reading contacts

$user->primaryEmail()?->value;                    // '[email protected]'
$user->primaryPhone()?->value;                    // '+421900000000'
$user->primaryContact(ContactType::Url);          // ?Contact — enum or string kind
$user->contactsOfType('phone');                   // ordered EloquentCollection<Contact>

$user->contactBook();                             // the ContactBook — same as Contacts::for($user)

$user->contacts;                                  // Collection — every contact
$user->contacts()->primary()->verified()->get();  // scopes chain on the relation

contacts() — the MorphMany relation; every Contact scope chains on it.
contactsOfType(ContactType|string) — one kind, ordered by position then id.
primaryContact(ContactType|string) — the primary of a kind, or null.
primaryEmail() / primaryPhone() — shortcuts for the two most common kinds.
contactBook() — the owner’s ContactBook, the same object Contacts::for($user) returns.

The Contact model

Each Contact exposes its kind, value, flags and metadata:

$contact->type;          // ContactType::Email
$contact->kind;          // 'email' — the raw stored kind
$contact->value;         // '[email protected]'
$contact->label;         // 'Work' — free-text label for this one contact
$contact->name;          // display name ('' when not set)
$contact->category;      // ?string
$contact->is_primary;    // bool
$contact->position;      // int — order within the kind
$contact->verified_at;   // ?Carbon
$contact->meta;          // Collection (JSON column)
$contact->owner;         // the owning model (MorphTo), or null

$contact->isVerified();  // bool
$contact->kindLabel();   // 'Email'
$contact->kindIcon();    // 'envelope'

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