Laravel GDPR Nullify

If you are affected by GDPR, you may find yourself in situation, when someone ask you to delete his/her data. You don't need to delete their records, just hide the sensible fields. This way your database remains consistent (eg. for history, statistics) but you finally satisfy the request.

With this package you can easily "nullify" specific fields for any Eloquent Model.

Requirements

Laravel 5.5

Installation

Install with composer

composer require subdesign/laravel-gdpr-nullify:^1.0.0

Setup

Add the following trait to your Eloquent model

use Subdesign\LaravelGdprNullify\GdprNullifyTrait;

class YourModel extends Model {

    use GdprNullifyTrait;

    ...
}

Next, add a property to this model which field(s) you want to nullify

protected $gdprFields = ['name', 'email'];

Usage

Use the nullify() method on a model instance

$user = App\User::find(1);

$user->nullify();

In the example, the name and email fields will be filled with random characters in the length of the database fields.

Dependency

The package has a dependency which is automatically installed: https://github.com/doctrine/dbal/tree/2.9

Credits

• Barna Szalai

License

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