What you can do with Laya PHP

4 use cases

• Route support tickets by department, urgency and churn risk

  Send each incoming ticket to the right team on your own server, with a confidence check for human review.

  • Laya PHP
  • Work and operations
  • Intermediate
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  Using the marcreichel/laya-php repo, add a readonly decision class for <ticket queue> with department, urgency and churn fields, and call Laya::decide on the ticket body. Report the typed result and its answerConfidence for a sample ticket, and verify that `php artisan laya:try` prints a hydrated value for that class.

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• Block abusive or spam text in Laravel form submissions

  Add a validation rule that asks a yes/no question about each submitted text and rejects the bad ones.

  • Laya PHP
  • Work and operations
  • Intermediate
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  In the marcreichel/laya-php repo's Laravel setup, add a Decides::not rule with the question <moderation question> to the <form field> validation in <controller or form request>. Report which test inputs pass and fail, and verify that a request with a fake answer of true is rejected.

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• Unit-test classification code without a running server

  Run your tests against a built-in fake so CI does not need Laya or Docker.

  • Laya PHP
  • Work and operations
  • Intermediate
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  In the marcreichel/laya-php repo, write a test for <class that calls Laya> that uses the built-in fake to return <expected answers>. Report the test result and the call count, and verify that the test passes with no laya-serve running.

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• Save typed decisions in an Eloquent JSON column

  Cast a model attribute to a decision class so the result reads back as a typed object.

  • Laya PHP
  • Work and operations
  • Intermediate
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  In the marcreichel/laya-php repo, add an AsDecision cast for <decision class> on the <model> model's <json column>. Save one decision, reload the model and report the stored JSON and the read-back enum value. Verify that assigning a non-decision value throws InvalidDecisionCastException.

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How to use Laya PHP

1. Check you have what it needs: PHP 8.4+ and Composer; A PSR-18 HTTP client such as Guzzle or Symfony HttpClient; Docker, to run laya-serve from the repo's compose.yaml.
2. Open marcreichel/laya-php on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Run composer require marcreichel/laya-php in your PHP project.
4. Start the local server from a clone of this repo with docker compose up -d --wait, then check it with php artisan laya:health in a Laravel app.
5. Write a readonly decision class with enum fields for department and urgency and a bool for churn, then try it with php artisan laya:try "App\Decisions\Triage" "Hi, we were billed twice for March. Refund it today or we cancel.".
6. In your queued job, call $laya->decide($ticket->body, Triage::class) and save the department on the ticket.

These steps come from our top use case, Route support tickets by department, urgency and churn risk, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

• Who it is forPHP and Laravel developers who need to route, score or flag text on their own server without per-token LLM fees.
• Why it is hot
• LanguagePHP
• Sourcegithub.com/marcreichel/laya-php · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• PHP 8.4+ and Composer
• A PSR-18 HTTP client such as Guzzle or Symfony HttpClient
• Docker, to run laya-serve from the repo's compose.yaml
• Laravel 13+ for the Laravel steps (service provider, artisan commands, validation rule, cast)

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