Biggo6 / laravel-updater by biggo

Laravel 4.2 Self-Updater

This is a Laravel 4.2 package which supports self-update of Laravel applications. You only need a remote webserver which holds the update files.

Laravel 5.1+ Self-Updater

Go to this https://github.com/thetodd/laravel-updater

Requirements

Laravel 4.2
PHP >= 5.4

Installation

a) Run

composer require biggo6/laravel-updater dev-master

b) Add service provider to /config/app.php file.

'providers' => [
    ...
    'Biggo6\LaravelUpdater\LaravelUpdaterServiceProvider',
],

c) Create a version.json file in the root directory.

{
    "version": "[your initial version]"
}

d) Publish config file. (optionally)

php artisan config:publish biggo6/laravel-updater

Usage

This package registers some new routes.

You can check if there is a new application version when you type self-updater/check in your web browser after the base url of your application.

You can automatically update your application with the url self-updater/update.

Customizing Views

php artisan view:publish biggo6/laravel-updater

This command will move the package's views into the app/views/packages directory. If this directory doesn't already exist, it will be created when you run the command. Once the views have been published, you may tweak them to your liking! The exported views will automatically take precedence over the package's own view files.

Remote version file

The remote version file holds the up to date version of the application. It also defines where to find the update package.

{
    "version": "1.0.1",
    "file": "versions/v101.zip"
}

Configuration

If you published the configuration fiels with the config:publish artisan command, you can specify your own remote server.

'remote_uri' => 'http://localhost/app-name/'

You can easily set this parameter in config/packages. The URI should not have a trailing slash and the remote_version.json file on the webserver must be accessible.

Credits

https://github.com/thetodd/laravel-updater