Integrate Apple's EPF in Laravel

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Work in progress. While I do not recommend using in production yet, things should be working as advertised., _(*2)

This package provides models and other tools to use Apple's Enterprise Partner Feed (EPF) in Laravel., _(*3)

This package do not provides EPF data, you will still have to download your own files., _(*4)

Installation

You can install the package via composer:, _(*5)

composer require atomescrochus/apple-epf-laravel

Then you have to install the package' service provider, _unless you are running Laravel >=5.5_ (it'll use package auto-discovery) :, _(*6)

'providers' => [
    ...

    Atomescrochus\EPF\EPFServiceProvider::class

    ....
]

You will have to add another connection to your config/database.php file, this package will be looking for it. You can of course use the same credential as your main database, but to my experience, since EPF database is pretty huge, it's a good idea to keep things separate, it just make things easier., _(*7)

Below, you'll find the template of the connection to add. You can see we're using the .env file to set the connection infos, if necessary. You will have to add those variables to your own .env, don't forget!, _(*8)

This package's models will be looking for the connection with the name "apple-epf", do not change the connection name ot you will break things!, _(*9)

<?php // File: /config/database.php

'connections' => [

    // [...]

    'apple-epf' => [
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'host' => env('EPF_DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'port' => env('EPF_DB_PORT', '3306'),
        'database' => env('EPF_DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
        'username' => env('EPF_DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
        'password' => env('EPF_DB_PASSWORD', ''),
        'unix_socket' => env('EPF_DB_SOCKET', ''),
        'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
        'prefix' => env('EPF_DB_PREFIX', ''),
        'strict' => true,
        'engine' => null,
    ],

],

Usage

If you want to only use the provided models to your own database, just autoload them like any other models., _(*10)

If you don't have your data yet, you can, if you provided your credentials to access the EPF feed to the .env file, use the following artisan commands:, _(*11)

php artisan epf:download will help your download the files;
php artisan epf:extract will extract the downloaded files;
php artisan epf:import will import the data to database using the apple-epf connection, using the provided models.

Be careful, you can use the all option when prompted while using the artisan command, but it's not advisable. The archives are huge, extracted files are huge, and the data in the database will be taking a lot of space also. You should really try to import in parts as much as you can, so you can remove unecessary files to free up some space so you can finish the rest of the imports..., _(*12)