I want to use avatar in my faker users seeding and I try to use https://github.com/ottaviano/faker-gravatar
But I got error trying to install it :
[InvalidArgumentException]
Package ottaviano/faker-gravatar has a PHP requirement incompatible with your PHP version, PHP extensions and Composer version:
- ottaviano/faker-gravatar 0.1.2 requires php ^7.1 which does not match your installed version 8.1.0.
Looks like it does not support php 8...
Are there similar pluging supporting php 8 ?
Or maybe I can tune this plugin to work under php 8?
Thanks in advance!
You could create an issue on the repo and request that the maintainer update the package to support PHP 8. Alternatively you could fork the repo and either maintain that fork yourself, or create a pull request once you've updated the package.
With the above in mind though, something to note is that package is using an abandoned faker library. There is a new fork that is recommended for use but does not have a gravatar provider.
You could write your own provider for the newer faker library or alternatively go down the very simple route of just implementing a statement to generate a gravatar yourself.
'https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/' . md5(strtolower(trim($faker->email()))) . '?d=identicon';
The above will look for an existing gravatar for the provided email address and return that if it finds one, otherwise will return a default gravatar image which in my example is a geometric pattern based on the email hash.
Whilst this solution might not be as flexible as the package in your question, if all you're after is a gravatar and don't care whether it's isometric or a robot (see default images in the API docs for changing the default image generated) then something simple like this might be all you need.
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Please point out any naivete or incorrect assumptions I'm making about Laravel, Composer, PHPUnit, etc.
I had a class called SpeechToTextHelper that was inside a Laravel project, and it used facades like this:
use Cache;
use Log;
use Storage;
Then, since I wanted to share it between multiple Laravel projects, I moved it into a separate repo and required it (into the first project) as a dependency via Composer.
The code all seems to run fine.
My question is different from Using Laravel Facades outside Laravel
What I want to know is:
Now that I also want to write PHPUnit tests for SpeechToTextHelper in my new tools repo, I see errors like RuntimeException: A facade root has not been set. and Error: Class 'Log' not found, presumably because this tools repo has no awareness of Laravel. I guess this means my production code has been working just by side-effect.
In my new tools repo (where my SpeechToTextHelper now is), how am I supposed to indicate (maybe somewhere in composer.json?) that the code will only work if Laravel's facades exist and are initiated properly?
How can I fix my separate repo's code so that its tests can run and also so that it ensures that it can only be "required" by a Laravel project?
P.S. https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/facades says "When building a third-party package that interacts with Laravel, it's better to inject Laravel contracts (https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/contracts) [which live in their own GitHub repository] instead of using facades." "If you are building a package, you should strongly consider using contracts since they will be easier to test in a package context."
But I do not see contracts for Log or Storage at all.
I think you are looking for Laravel component repositories
Cache - This component shows how to use Laravel's Cache features in non-Laravel applications.
Log - This component shows how to use Laravel's Log features in non-Laravel applications.
This video shows, how you can use eloquent outside laravel, I think that will give you better idea.
I'm not positive that this is the best approach, so I'd love if others
would provide better answers.
For production code
My composer.json still has this in the "require" section: "laravel/framework": "5.7.*",.
I plan to only ever require this tools library from within a Laravel app. I'm not sure that this is the right way to make that a rule, but my production code at least seems to be working.
For tests
As for tests, what seems to have been necessary was to add these files from https://github.com/laravel/laravel/tree/2a1f3761e89df690190e9f50a6b4ac5ebb8b35a3:
app/Console/Kernel.php
app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php
app/Providers/AuthServiceProvider.php
app/Providers/EventServiceProvider.php
app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php
bootstrap/cache/.gitignore
bootstrap/app.php
bootstrap/autoload.php
config/app.php
config/database.php
config/logging.php
config/view.php
storage/logs/laravel.log
tests/CreatesApplication.php
tests/TestCase.php
Perhaps those are the minimum set of barebones Laravel files without which tests can't run.
Then I made sure that each test class extended tests/TestCase.php. And I adjusted the namespaces.
I try to use the package https://github.com/BlueBayTravel/Mailchimp as in examples but i got an error:
ErrorException in Mailchimp.php line 64:
Undefined property: BlueBayTravel\Mailchimp\Facades\Mailchimp::$users
when i try to use: Mailchimp::users(), while i can get a connection via Mailchimp::getDefaultConnection(); mean the package is completely red, what u guess the problem with me here ?
I saw that you already opened an issue in the package repo.
If you are using Laravel, and you want to use an existing integration with Mailchimp, I would recommend you to give a try to the spatie/laravel-newsletter package. It's the most complete package I've found for the integration Laravel + Mailchimp, and it uses the drewm/mailchimp-api API wrapper (which IMO, is the best php wrapper for Mailchimp). You can find some examples at Freek's blog or at the README file of the project. And if you do not find what you need, you can go to a lower level using the drewm wrapper: $api = Newsletter::getApi();
If this is not what you are looking for, you can always create your own service in Laravel, adapted to your needs and requierements ;)
I am trying to use low level api with Laravel 5. from code I used
$specialFeed = FeedManager::getClient->feed('special', '42')
But there is no method getClient. Could you please help me how I can use low level api for getstream in Laravel?
The getClient function was added on the version 2.2.2, you should make sure to pull that or a more recent version to use this functionality.
Did you follow the setup steps from the documentation? In order to use the feed manager facade you need to configure Laravel accordingly.
If you that does not solve the issue, can you share more information (eg. your configurations, the version of the lib that you are using, the version of Laravel...)
I'm starting a new project and I want to reuse some parts of it, mainly the stuff related to user registration and authentication. I can copy and paste all of the code but I want to use again. I know there is Package Development in Laravel but it's not easy and feel like there must be a better way.
Some days ago I find a pingpong/modules but I don't know about it. It's third party plugin and don't trust it.
Use this plugin is true? Is this plugin is updated later? What's different between Embedd Package Laravel and pingpong/modules? or Do you have any suggestion?
Pingpong modules seems to be build for the earlier version of Laravel 5 and in how far they are compatible with future versions (and maybe current 5.1.11) I cannot say.
There isn't much activity going look the commit history for 2.1, as of today(18 dec) the last commit was over 6 months ago.
But is the package specifically designed for Laravel? It seems to. They offer a bunch of features which are useful for development. The only unfortunate thing is you get a LOT of code within your own git environment (is it a good thing? I don't know, what do you prefer).
Personally I don't like it in this way for development, I prefer them in the vendor/ folder else it's a pain to update it to newer a version.
Since Laravel 5 Taylor wanted to make package development not too specific anymore, like in Laravel 4. The only thing what you can do (but not have to) to make your package using Laravel is using the ServiceProvider's. The ServiceProvider is the bootstrap into the Laravel application.
If you want to extend or implement your own functionality, fork the repo and build it yourself on top off it and host it (through github/packagist or a private repo using Satis).
Pingpong modules (2.1) is build for Laravel 5 and they you described (Embedded Laravel Package) is more for Laravel 4, because the more specific way you have to write the package.
But, there is alternative?
Whenever you want a more active project/package for development you should tryout Asgard CMS. They are pretty modular and I thought I read somewhere it was inspired by this package (totally not sure).
How about building yourself?
Of course you can build your own packages to achieve the same result. And create it as modular as you want. I created a lot modules for my company and we can create pretty easy a entire system and using and extending/overriding modules. Even small parts from a module can be overwritten to project specific needs.
We have chosen for almost the same structure as the app/ folder which Laravel projects, in case of CMS/API modules.
A packages look like:
tests/
src/
Acme/
Controllers/
Requests/
Models/
Module.php // contains some specifc calculations for example
ModelServiceProvider.php
composer.json
In the composer.json file we autoload: "Module\\": "src/"
And in the config/app.php we register the ModuleServiceProvider. Now we injected the functionality into Laravel's container and can we use it through the app() instance.
But whenever we only want to use the Models with in another project or standalone, we can still use it because the autoloaded features from composer and the way we build the package. Possible to use:
<?php
require_once __DIR__ .'/vendor/autoload.php';
use Module\Models\Module;
$module = new Module;
Edit
The package structure we like to use, to have a section for API or CMS stuff:
tests/
src/
Cms/
Controllers/
Requests/
Api/
Controllers/
Transformers/
Models/
Module.php // contains some specifc calculations for example
Providers/
CmsServiceProvider.php // includes `ModuleServiceProvider`
ApiServiceProvider.php // includes `ModuleServiceProvider`
ModuleServiceProvider.php // contains global stuff like commands etc.
composer.json
and instead of registering ModuleServiceProvider in config/app.php we register the ApiServiceProvider or CmsServiceProvider depending on the wishes of the client/project.
To reuse your classes simply use php namespaces or use to call back your clases.
Using the namespace
namespace Acme\Tools;
class Foo
{
echo "me";
}
You can the call class foo
<?php
$foo = new \Acme\Tools\Foo();
Using Use.
You can also use use Statement as below :
<?php
use \Acme\Tools\Foo;
$foo = new Foo();
Use Middleware
You should also use middleware to filter who should use the scripts ie the Auth middle-ware , which will help you in filtering users , registrations , logins READ MORE http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/middleware
Use Eloquent
Use ORM to create REST apis to your models , its very simple , always let your controller class extend eloquent use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; ie as :
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; .Read More http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent
Lastly Use Laravel In built Helper functions
There are numerous Laravel In built Helper functions , to use simply go over the documentation to help you
I've used pingpong modules. It a pretty cool package. I'm not sure if it's updated much. But it's a very simple package. The only thing it does is create a folder with almost the same structure as in the app folder + views. But these are modules. You can reuse it if you program them right. The same goes for the other answer from jimmy if you have a good structure you can reuse anything.
EDIT
In the image below you'll see an example of pingpong modules. As you it's pretty much the same structure as the app folder. Maybe more the root folder. Normally it runs start.php and you have a routes.php file int he Http folder. I customized mine a bit. And load the frontend and backend routes within the RouteServiceProvider. This is build with laravel 5.1.
My webhost, iPage, has not yet made bcrypt available for cgi scripts, and because it's not my server I can't install bcrypt myself using pip or easyinstall etc. My question is, would it be possible to download the bcrypt tarball to my pc and unzip and load the directories and files to my iPage site tree myself? Thanks!
Bcrypt is just a standard that can be implemented in different ways.
I'm not familiar with "iPage" but it sounds like you only have file access.
All you need to do is find a library that implements bcrypt in whatever cgi scripting language you are using, and then include and use it in your code.
For example if you are using php, you will look for a php library that offers bcrypt. You might find this library which implements bcrypt in php. All you need to do is add the password.php under the lib directory to your site, then in your php scripts that need bcrypt simply require the new file and you should be able to use its functions. See the library documentation for information on that.