laravel-setup

My default Laravel 4.2 setup, ready for creating a site with user setup/authentication and/or RESTful web services. This is the setup I use to kick off most of my Laravel based projects where RESTful services and user roles/authentication are high priority.

Includes:

Default layout views including Twitter Bootstrap
Packages:
- Confide User Authentication and views: https://github.com/Zizaco/confide
- API-Guard for API Key Generation: https://github.com/chrisbjr/api-guard
- API-Response for handling/transforming API reponses: https://github.com/ellipsesynergie/api-response
- Entrust for role based permissions: https://github.com/Zizaco/entrust
- Faker for dummy data generation: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
- JeffreyWay Generators for better workflow: https://github.com/JeffreyWay/Laravel-4-Generators
- Laracasts PHP to Javascript utility: https://github.com/laracasts/PHP-Vars-To-Js-Transformer
- Guzzle 4 for Mandrill/Mailgun

#Notes

1. Config

app/config/app.php

Providers have been updated to include the following:

'Laracasts\Utilities\UtilitiesServiceProvider',
'Way\Generators\GeneratorsServiceProvider',
'EllipseSynergie\ApiResponse\Laravel\ResponseServiceProvider',
'Chrisbjr\ApiGuard\ApiGuardServiceProvider',
'Zizaco\Confide\ServiceProvider',
'Zizaco\Entrust\EntrustServiceProvider'

Aliases have been updated to include the following:

'Carbon'        => 'Carbon\Carbon',
'Confide' 			=> 'Zizaco\Confide\Facade',
'Entrust'    		=> 'Zizaco\Entrust\EntrustFacade',

2. Bootstrap

bootstrap/start.php

Updated detect environment at line 27 to distinguish between production and development depending on location:

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(array(

	'local' => array('*.local','*localhost*'),
    'production' => array('*.com', '*.net', '*.ie')

));

3. composer.json

composer.json

Important! This file has been updated to include the packages I have listed above.

4. Views

app/views/layouts app/views/users

I have included some starter templates for general and user-related layouts. The user related layouts utilise the Confide package to generate forms.

5. Models

app/models/User/php

I have updated the User model to utilise Confide.

6. Migrations

apps/database/migrations

Migration files for Entrust and Confide are generated and ready for migration once the database has been configured.

#Installation Instructions

Download or clone the laravel-setup directory and rename it as per your naming scheme.
Update your database details as per the Laravel docs: http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/database
Generate the api-guard migration using composer: $ php artisan migrate --package="chrisbjr/api-guard"
Migrate the databases for Confide and Sentry: $ php artisan migrate
If you wish, you can update the UsersController or Confide's configuration to point to the Bootstrapped user views located at app/layout/users.
Set up the email configuration to your preference.
Configure the various packages as per their docs.

Coming soon:

API-Guard Controllers, integrated with Confide
Example API/RESTful service Controller
Extra views/generic layouts
Mail configuration

santryn/laravel-setup