laravel-vintage

Runs legacy code inside a Laravel project

Why?

To help and endorse legacy projects upgrade to a modern platform, allowing routes to be migrated gradativelly and, in the meanwhile, making it a fun process.

Installation

1 - Create a new laravel project

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel {projectName} "5.8.*"

2 - Require via Composer

composer create-project vanderson139/laravel-vintage

3 - Get configuration file

php artisan vendor:publish

4 - Put your legacy project inside ./vintage folder.

How It Works?

When laravel gets a request, it first will attempt to find a route for it. Then, if there's none, tries to load a file from vintage folder.

After migrate any route from legacy php files to a laravel controller, place it's path into migrated_routes in config file.

Personalization

Your project may not run perfectly out of the box. In this cases, is possible do add new middlewares to make any adjustments you need. Just make sure to place them into config file.

<?php

return [
    'folder_name' => 'vintage',
    'middlewares' => [
        \Vintage\Middleware\MigratedRoutes::class,
        \Vintage\Middleware\SessionGlobal::class,
        \Project\MyCustomMiddleware\AjustCustomBehavior::class,
    ],
    'migrated_routes' => [
        'my_legacy_file.php' => '/laravel-route'
    ]
];

Known Issues

Global variables calls will not work, replace them with global $GLOBALS.

Replace this:

global $MY_GLOBAL_VARIABLE;

With this:

$GLOBALS['MY_GLOBAL_VARIABLE'];