morrislaptop / LaravelFivePackageBridges by morrislaptop

Use your Laravel 4 packages in Laravel 5

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Package Data
Maintainer Username:	morrislaptop
Maintainer Contact:	craig.michael.morris@gmail.com (Craig Morris)
Package Create Date:	2015-01-19
Package Last Update:	2016-01-13
Home Page:	https://packagist.org/packages/morrislaptop/laravel-five-package-bridges
Language:	PHP
License:	MIT
Last Refreshed:	2024-05-11 03:01:16

Package Statistics
Total Downloads:	17,743
Monthly Downloads:	20
Daily Downloads:	0
Total Stars:	34
Total Watchers:	5
Total Forks:	9
Total Open Issues:	0

Laravel Five Package Bridges

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:

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.