Laravel Five Package Bridges

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This Laravel package provides a bridging trait and multiple bridges that allows Laravel 4 packages to be used in Laravel 5., _(*2)

Current packages that are bridged are:, _(*3)

If you want to build a bridge, please follow the contributing guide., _(*4)

Installation

Begin by installing this package through Composer., _(*5)

composer require morrislaptop/laravel-five-package-bridges

Once this operation completes, add the config service provider, this brings the package() method back to the config repository. Open app/config/app.php and add.., _(*6)

'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\ConfigServiceProvider',

Then we need to swap the core Application class with the bridging, this adds various methods like after() back. Open bootstrap/app.php and replace.., _(*7)

$app = new Illuminate\Foundation\Application(
    realpath(__DIR__.'/../')
);

with, _(*8)

$app = new Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Application(
    realpath(__DIR__.'/../')
);

The final step is to add the bridged service providers instead of the raw service providers., _(*9)

Open app/config/app.php, and add lines as appropriate., _(*10)

'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Bridges\FlashServiceProvider', 
'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Bridges\GeneratorsServiceProvider',
'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Bridges\ImageServiceProvider',
'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Bridges\ExcelServiceProvider',
'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Bridges\ClockworkServiceProvider',
'Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\Bridges\SentryServiceProvider',

Voila! Those packages now work as they always did in Laravel 4., _(*11)

Custom Packages

If you have a private package you can simply create your own bridging service provider and bring in the trait from this package., _(*12)

<?php namespace App\Bridges;  

use Morrislaptop\LaravelFivePackageBridges\LaravelFivePackageBridgeTrait; 
use Acme\Private\NuclearServiceProvider as BaseNuclearServiceProvider;

  class NuclearServiceProvider extends BaseNuclearServiceProvider  {  
    use LaravelFivePackageBridgeTrait;  
}