README

Lavender is an Open Source E-Commerce Framework built on top of Laravel 5.

Note: Lavender is in active development and NOT ready for production.

Step 1: Install Lavender with Composer.

Avoid installing lavender in your web server's public directory. Instead create a symlink on lavender/public as your public root.

Run composer to create the lavender application:

composer create-project lavender-commerce/lavender

Set up your environment config file:

lavender/.env    

Step 2: Set up Lavender with Artisan.

Create the first round of migrations. This command reads the definitions in config/entity.php and compares it to your database.

php artisan migrate:entity

Run your newly created migration file:

php artisan migrate

Install lavender's dependencies (default store and theme):

php artisan db:seed --class=InstallLavender

Create an admin account:

php artisan make:admin

Step 3: (Optional) Seed catalog sample data!

php artisan db:seed --class=SampleData

That's it!

Troubleshooting

Permission denied on lavender/storage directory?

chmod -R 775 storage

Login not working? Try modifying your sessions config:

config/session.php

Emails not working? Try modifying your email config:

config/mail.php

Something else? Follow the install instructions carefully or submit an new issue!

Support

Come chat with us in #lavender on freenode, or submit an new issue.

License

Lavender is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license

Roadmap

What does production-ready Lavender look like? A feature-light but highly extensible ecommerce platform with elegant code structures and detailed documentation.

Contributing

Lavender is in active development and pull requests (on the master branch) are much appreciated!

This repository provides the consumer application which contains the controllers, models, and views (and config, locale, etc) that makes Lavender an ecommerce platform.

The lavender/framework repository contains framework enhancements for Laravel 5, including multiple authentication, a powerful Entity class, layout injection, and easily extensible forms.