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A WordPress-style installer and plugin installer feature pack for Laravel.

Description

This package provides a robust, WordPress-style installer and plugin installer feature pack specifically designed for Laravel applications. It aims to simplify the initial setup and ongoing management of plugins within your Laravel project, offering a familiar experience for developers accustomed to WordPress's extensibility.

Installation

You can install the package via Composer:

composer require caydeesoft/installer

Laravel Integration

For Laravel applications, the package will automatically discover its service provider. If you need to manually register it, add the following to your config/app.php file within the providers array:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Caydeesoft\Installer\InstallerServiceProvider::class,
    // ...
],

Requirements

• PHP ^8.2
• illuminate/support ^12.0
• illuminate/filesystem ^12.0

Usage

Installing Features

This package provides an Artisan command to install the necessary files and configurations into your Laravel application.

To install the features, run the following command:

php artisan installer-features:install

If you need to overwrite existing files, you can use the --force option:

php artisan installer-features:install --force

After running the install command, you should perform the following steps:

1. Dump Autoload:

   composer dump-autoload

2. Run Migrations:

   php artisan migrate

3. Clear Optimization Cache:

   php artisan optimize:clear

[// TODO: Add more detailed usage instructions for the installed features, such as how to create and manage plugins, once the stubs are clearer.]

Contributing

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License

This project is proprietary.