I need to upgrade my website from Laravel 5.5 to Laravel 6.
Can I directly upgrade to it?
Laravel 5.5 => Laravel 6.x
Or
Do I need to upgrade step by step?
Laravel 5.5 => Laravel 5.6 => Laravel 5.7 => Laravel 5.8 => Laravel 6.x
Or
Let me know any other optimum way.
Thanks in advance.
Laravel 5.5 => Laravel 5.6 => Laravel 5.7 => Laravel 5.8 => Laravel 6.x
That is the way because Laravel has the upgrade documentations only for one lower version.
If you do a direct upgrade to 6.x, there are high chances that you miss some of the internal version changes in your code which will cause you a lot of headaches to resolve and locate later.
If you go step by step, you will be able to test your application or api after each upgrade and resolve the issue and take the help of individual upgrade documentation.
Makes sense?
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I have a Laravel 4.0 application. Is it possible to migrate this instance to Laravel 5.7? What are the impacts of this on the system and how can I do it?
There's a possibility if you upgrade it to 4.2 and then use https://laravelshift.com/ to get it to 5.7. It will cost you somewhat though.
I am using Lumen 5.5 and using the following code chunk under app/providers/appServiceProvider.php in boot method.
\URL::forceSchema('https');
It was compatible with the earlier version of Lumen 5.2
Is there any way to sort this out without using mod_rewrite and middleware approaches.
It appears the function has changed name from forceSchema to forceScheme.
You are using Lumen 5.2.
In Laravel 5.2 or earlier version it was working fine.
\URL::forceSchema('https');
In Laravel 5.4 or above version it changed to
\URL::forceScheme('https');
As I am new with Laravel and there are already many versions out there I'm confused about which version I should start with? Which will be the perfect version to start?
Versions are: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.4.22 and upcoming 5.5
It will be my pleasure if Laravel experts give me some good advice.
Go with laravel 5.4 and start working with PHP 7. There's no point in learning the older versions at the moment. With 5.5 (LTS) set to release in July, you will be well set with learning 5.4 now.
There are already tons of resources for 5.4 and any and most codes and tutorials that uses 5.3 can be used with 5.4 without any/much change.
A good series to get started.
https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-from-scratch-2017
Go to this URL: https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-from-scratch-2017. It's version 5.4, by far the best resource you'll find for laravel. And it's free.
You can start with Laravel 5.4 because Laravel 5.4 is updated one if learn Laravel 5.3 then you definitely learn 5.4 therefore you start with Laravel 5.4
Thank you
Given Laravel scout was introcuced with laravel 5.3 can I use it with laravel 5.1?
The docs at https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/scout doesn't state anything about this.
Yes you can include it in laravel 5.x as well , Using this blog
Blog Link
Also you can check Other Elastic Search plugin which are being used in laravel much before Scout
https://blog.madewithlove.be/post/integrating-elasticsearch-with-your-laravel-app/
https://github.com/cviebrock/laravel-elasticsearch
No It's not possible as laravel/scout required
illuminate/contracts: ~5.3
illuminate/database: ~5.3
illuminate/support: ~5.3
which is only available in laravel >=5.3
I am working on project which was created using Laravel 4.2 and i am curious to know, if Laravel 4.2 and Laravel 5.2 , supports PHP 7 or not ?
Thanks
Update: Starting from 4.2.20 Laravel supports PHP7
#laravelphp tweet:
A special release of Laravel 4.2 has been made (4.2.20) to provide PHP
7 support. Also updates base Symfony components to 2.7.
From one of Laravel issues:
Laravel 5.1 is the first version of Laravel to support PHP 7.
and
Laravel 4.2, and the related symfony version will never get PHP 7 support.
Graham Campbell is the main Laravel contributor after Taylor Otwell, so this info is pretty reliable.
As from today Laravel 4.2 got support for PHP 7. So you can upgrade to 4.2.20 to use it in PHP 7