morrislaptop/laravel-five-package-bridges

Use your Laravel 4 packages in Laravel 5

1.0.3 2015-03-02 21:50 UTC

Requires

• laravel/framework: ~5.0

Requires (Dev)

• camroncade/timezone: dev-master
• cartalyst/sentry: ~2.1
• intervention/image: ~2.0
• itsgoingd/clockwork: ~1.6
• laracasts/flash: ~1.3
• maatwebsite/excel: ~1.2
• orchestra/testbench: ~3.0@dev
• phpunit/phpunit: ~4.4
• robbiep/cloudconvert-laravel: ~2.0@beta
• way/generators: ~3.0

Suggests

• camroncade/timezone: Addon to assist with Timezone managemenr
• cartalyst/sentry: A framework agnostic authentication & authorization system. http://www.cartalyst.com
• intervention/image: PHP Image Manipulation http://image.intervention.io
• itsgoingd/clockwork: Server-side component of Clockwork, a Chrome extension for PHP development.
• laracasts/flash: Easy flash notifications https://packagist.org/packages/laracasts/flash
• maatwebsite/excel: An eloquent way of importing and exporting Excel and CSV files for Laravel with the power of PHPExcel http://www.maatwebsite.nl/laravel-excel/docs
• robbiep/cloudconvert-laravel: Provides API access to CloudConvert.com
• way/generators: Rapidly speed up your Laravel workflow with generators https://packagist.org/packages/way/generators

Replaces

• illuminate/support: ~4.2

MIT

• Craig Morris

README

This Laravel package provides a bridging trait and multiple bridges that allows Laravel 4 packages to be used in Laravel 5.

Current packages that are bridged are:

• laracasts/flash
• way/generators
• intervention/image
• maatwebsite/excel
• itsgoingd/clockwork
• cartalyst/sentry
• robbiep/cloudconvert-laravel
• camroncade/timezone
• laracasts/utilities

If you want to build a bridge, please follow the contributing guide.

Installation

Begin by installing this package through Composer.

composer require morrislaptop/laravel-five-package-bridges

Once this operation completes, add the config service provider, this brings the package() method back to the config repository. Open app/config/app.php and add..

'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\ConfigServiceProvider',

Then we need to swap the core Application class with the bridging, this adds various methods like after() back. Open bootstrap/app.php and replace..

$app = new Illuminate\Foundation\Application(
    realpath(__DIR__.'/../')
);

with

$app = new Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Application(
    realpath(__DIR__.'/../')
);

The final step is to add the bridged service providers instead of the raw service providers.

Open app/config/app.php, and add lines as appropriate.

'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Bridges\FlashServiceProvider',

'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Bridges\GeneratorsServiceProvider',
'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Bridges\ImageServiceProvider',
'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Bridges\ExcelServiceProvider',
'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Bridges\ClockworkServiceProvider',
'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Bridges\SentryServiceProvider',

Voila! Those packages now work as they always did in Laravel 4.

Custom Packages

If you have a private package you can simply create your own bridging service provider and bring in the trait from this package.

<?php namespace App\Bridges;



use Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\LaravelFivePackageBridgeTrait;

use Acme\Private\NuclearServiceProvider as BaseNuclearServiceProvider;



class NuclearServiceProvider extends BaseNuclearServiceProvider 
{


	use LaravelFivePackageBridgeTrait;


}

Contributing

Please see the contributing guide.