intrip / laravel-import-export by jacopo-beschi

#Laravel-Import-Export

Import-Export is a package to import and export data from various format into a database.

• Author: Jacopo Beschi
• Version: 0.1.0

This package is no longer supported: either any bugfix or any new feature will be added. Install at your own risk!

##Features

• Import and export data from Csv file into database
• Multi DBMS: works with all DBMS supported by Laravel ORM
• Create database schema: allow you to create database schema when importing data

##Under the box: features incoming in 0.2.0

• Import and export an arbitrary number of lines
• Import and export JSON and XML
• Database access configurabile with a GUI

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.3.7
• Composer
• Laravel framework 4+
• DBMS that support transactions and supported by Laravel ORM

##Installation with Composer

To install Import-Export with Composer, add this line to your composer.json file in the `require field:

"jacopo/laravel-import-export": "dev-master"

Also remember to set the minimum-stability to "dev" in your composer.json file

Then open app/config/app.php and add the following line in the providers array:

'providers' => array(
    'Jacopo\LaravelImportExport\LaravelImportExportServiceProvider',
)

After you need to execute the following commands:

php artisan config:publish jacopo/laravel-import-export
php artisan asset:publish jacopo/laravel-import-export

Now you have under app/config/packages/jacopo/laravel-import-export the package configuration files. At this point you need to configure the database access. Open the file app/config/packages/jacopo/laravel-import-export/database.php and update it with the database access information. When done run the following command to initialize ImportExport database.

php artisan migrate --package="jacopo/laravel-import-export" --database="import"

This command will create a _import_export_temporary_table in the db, you can change the name of the table editing the the key: table_prefix under the file app/config/packages/jacopo/laravel-import-export/baseconf.php.

Congratulations! Now you can view the application at the url: http://url-of-your-baseapp/importer. If needed you can change the base route editing the the key: base_application_route under the file app/config/packages/jacopo/laravel-import-export/baseconf.php.