Custom Utilities for Laravel 4

This package contains custom Laravel application utilities to make installation, configuration, and management of Laravel 4 applications easier and less time consuming.

The changes made by this package are highly opinionated and are not suitable for everyone.

Installation Via Composer

Download this installer using Composer.

$ composer global require "mmanos/laravel-utilities=~1.0"

Make sure to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH so the mmanos-laravel executable is found when you run the mmanos-laravel command in your terminal.

Simply add this directory to your PATH in your ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.bashrc):

export PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH

Once installed, the simple mmanos-laravel global composer command will be available to run the project commands listed below.

Updates Via Composer

To keep this package up to date:

$ composer global update mmanos/laravel-utilities

Uninstalling

To remove this package, you edit ~/.composer/composer.json and then run:

$ composer global update

Commands

Run the commands below to initialize and/or modify Laravel 4 applications.

New

Create a fresh Laravel installation with dependencies in the directory you specify. This command also make's the app/storage/* directories writable.

$ mmanos-laravel new [directory]

For instance, mmanos-laravel new blog would create a directory named blog containing a fresh Laravel installation.

Note: This runs the composer create-project command to check out the latest version of Laravel and install it's dependencies.

Prepare

Prepare a fresh version of Laravel by adding helpful functionality. This command will do the following:

• Create app/classes directory and autoload it
• Configure local environment detection
• Install helper functions file
• Configure event callbacks
• Configure the HTTP Exceptions handler
• Enable sending of custom headers in response
• Set app timezone to America/Chicago
• Configure a common site/company name for use throughout the app
• Create a custom model class for other models to extend
• Ignore local config files in Git
• Add Carbon class alias

$ mmanos-laravel prepare

Note: Run from the base directory of the Laravel application.

Front End

Configure an existing Laravel application with helpful front-end functionality. This command will do the following:

• Create assets directory structure
• Install package laravel-casset
• Install package bootstrap
• Install package jquery
• Install library Font Awesome
• Enable IE8 responsive css support (via html5shiv.js and respond.js)
• Create a default layout
• Configure default controllers and views
• Create a default email layout

$ mmanos-laravel frontend

Note: Run from the base directory of the Laravel application.

Authorize

Configure an existing Laravel application with authorization functionality. This command will do the following:

• Create user migrations, models, services, validators, and event handlers
• Create an auth controller along with it's resources
• Create a signup controller along with it's resources
• Install ACL functionality built on the zendframework/zend-permissions-acl package

$ mmanos-laravel authorize

Note: Run from the base directory of the Laravel application.