Porting Laravel projects as extensions.

0E800

Was just wondering if it's possible / plausible to cut corners by modifying Laravel projects to be Flarum extensions.

Case in point, this is a Laravel Poll project.
https://github.com/FbF/Laravel-Poll

I see it has a composer.json but does not have a bootstrap. Is it feasible that this source could be modified to be used with Flarum?

What road blocks are there besides directory structure? Differences between Core and Laravel?

It seems like it should be doable, granted Flarum supports the dependencies.

Thank you.

luceos

0E800 it's most likely easier to integrate a laravel package into flarum than integrating Flarum (or any extension) into Laravel. What I would do is set the laravel package as dependency in your own extension and then load service providers etc by loading it from the vendor directory from within your proxy service provider.

It should be possible, never tried it.

One thing that might become an issue is dependency hell. Flarum is still on laravel 5.2 packages and supports PHP 5.5. Make sure you test properly.
Also, your flarum app might get very bloated by including unnecessary 3rd party packages.

Ralkage

I thought about doing the same at first, but then I thought to myself "compatibility and bloat".

I found this yesterday and thought it as unnecessary given the complications along the way.

https://wogan.blog/2017/02/12/integrating-laravel-and-flarum/