Laravel Visual Web Installer

• About
• Requirements
• Laravel Compatibility
• Installation
• Extends
• Routes
• Usage
• Contributing
• License

About

This package was made possible by using Laravel Installer awesome package. Most code copied from this repository. I just needed more features for my project. So I've made this package.

The current features are :

• Check for server requirements.
• Check for folders permissions.
• Generate storage link to public folder.
• Ability to set database information.
  • .env text editor
  • .env form wizard
• Migrate the database.
• Seed the tables.

Requirements

• Laravel 5.7+

Laravel Compatibility

Laravel	Laravel Visual Installer
5.7	1.0 +

Installation

Step 1: Install package

Add the package in your composer.json by executing the command.

composer require eliyas5044/laravel-visual-installer

Step 2: Publish package

Publish the packages views, config file, assets, and language files by executing the command.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravelinstaller

Note: For linux user

# update user group of laravel project folder
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data /var/www/html/laravel
# give folder permissions
sudo chmod -R 775 storage
sudo chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache

Extends

If you need extend this package, such as need more .env variables, need to override controller method, you can easily extend it. Create a file EnvironmentManager in your app directory and bind it in your AppServiceProvider.

use Eliyas5044\LaravelVisualInstaller\Controllers\FinalController;
use Eliyas5044\LaravelVisualInstaller\Helpers\EnvironmentManager;

public function register()
{
    $this->app->bind(EnvironmentManager::class, \App\Helpers\EnvironmentManager::class);
    $this->app->bind(FinalController::class, \App\Http\Controllers\FinalController::class);
}

Override controller method in \App\Http\Controllers\FinalController::class

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Eliyas5044\LaravelVisualInstaller\Events\LaravelVisualInstallerFinished;
use Eliyas5044\LaravelVisualInstaller\Helpers\EnvironmentManager;
use Eliyas5044\LaravelVisualInstaller\Helpers\FinalInstallManager;
use Eliyas5044\LaravelVisualInstaller\Helpers\InstalledFileManager;

class FinalController extends \Eliyas5044\LaravelVisualInstaller\Controllers\FinalController
{
    public function finish(InstalledFileManager $fileManager, FinalInstallManager $finalInstall, EnvironmentManager $environment)
    {
        $finalMessages = $finalInstall->runFinal();
        $finalEnvFile = $environment->getEnvContent();
    
        event(new LaravelVisualInstallerFinished);
    
        return view('vendor.installer.finished', compact('finalMessages', 'finalEnvFile'));
    }
}

Routes

• /install
• /update

Usage

• Install Routes Notes

  • In order to install your application, go to the /install route and follow the instructions.
  • Once the installation has ran the empty file installed will be placed into the /storage directory. If this file is present the route /install will abort to the 404 page.

• Update Route Notes

  • In order to update your application, go to the /update route and follow the instructions.
  • The /update routes counts how many migration files exist in the /database/migrations folder and compares that count against the migrations table. If the files count is greater then the /update route will render, otherwise, the page will abort to the 404 page.

• Additional Files and folders published to your project :

File	File Information
config/installer.php	In here you can set the requirements along with the folders permissions for your application to run, by default the array contains the default requirements for a basic Laravel app.
public/installer/assets	This folder contains a css folder and inside of it you will find a main.css file, this file is responsible for the styling of your installer, you can override the default styling and add your own.
resources/views/vendor/installer	This folder contains the HTML code for your installer, it is 100% customizable, give it a look and see how nice/clean it is.
resources/lang/en/installer_messages.php	This file holds all the messages/text, currently only English is available, if your application is in another language, you can copy/past it in your language folder and modify it the way you want.

Contributing

• If you have any suggestions please let me know : https://github.com/eliyas5044/laravel-visual-installer/pulls.

License

Laravel Visual Web Installer is licensed under the MIT license. Enjoy!