Laravel 5.4 Shift

[mattstauffer]

This pull request includes the changes for upgrading to Laravel 5.4. Feel free to commit any additional changes to the shift-16542 branch.

Before merging, you should:

• Checkout the shift-16542 branch
• Review all pull request comments for additional changes
• Update your dependencies for Laravel 5.4
• Run composer update (if the pre-scripts fail, add --no-scripts)
• Thoroughly test your application

If you want help with your upgrade, check out the Shift Human Services or join the Shifty Coders Slack room to get answers to all your Laravel questions.

[mattstauffer]

ℹ️ Laravel 5.4 added new middleware to handle whitespace in request data. This may affect the data your application received. Read this post on Laravel News for more detail to see if you need to modify your application.

[mattstauffer]

⚠️ Laravel Elixir changed to Laravel Mix in Laravel 5.4 which uses Webpack, instead of Gulp. While you may still use Gulp, you may need to revert the dependencies and scripts in your package.json file to their previous values.

[mattstauffer]

❌ Shift could not upgrade the following files since they differed from the default Laravel version. You will need to compare these application files against the default Laravel 5.4 versions and merge any changes:

• package.json
• resources/assets/js/bootstrap.js
• webpack.mix.js

[mattstauffer]

ℹ️ Laravel 5.4 changed the Pusher configuration options PUSHER_KEY and PUSHER_SECRET to PUSHER_APP_KEY and PUSHER_APP_SECRET respectively. Shift has attempted to change these throughout your application. Nonetheless, you should search for any additional references, particularly in files like .env which may not be included in your Git repository.

[mattstauffer]

❌ Shift could not upgrade the following configuration files since they differed from the default Laravel version. You will need to compare these configuration files against the Laravel 5.4 configuration files and merge any changes:

• config/services.php

[mattstauffer]

❌ The getParameter method of the Illuminate\Routing\Route class has been renamed in Laravel 5.4. You should use the parameter method instead.

Shift found potential uses of getParameter() in:

• app/Exceptions/Handler.php

[mattstauffer]

⚠️ Laravel 5.4's testing layer has been re-written. Instead of upgrading your tests, Shift installed the Laravel BrowserKit Testing package. This will allow you to test the Laravel 5.4 upgrade with your existing tests.

Once you have verified the upgrade, you can use the Laravel 5.4 Tests Shift to upgrade your tests to the new Laravel 5.4 testing layer.

[mattstauffer]

⚠️ Shift found a dependency for laravel/socialite. Laravel Socialite 3.0 and above is compatible with Laravel 5.4. You should ensure your version meets this requirement.

[mattstauffer]

ℹ️ In Laravel 5.4, the date cast creates a Carbon object which calls startOfDay. If you need to preserve the time portion of the date, you should use the datetime cast or convert your column to a datetime. Review the documentation on Attribute Casting for more details.

[mattstauffer]

ℹ️ Laravel 5.4 no longer includes the ability to customize the PDO "fetch style". Now PDO::FETCH_OBJ is always used. If you need to customize the fetch style, check the Database section of the Upgrade Guide for more details.

[mattstauffer]

⚠️ Per the Upgrade Guide, you should run php artisan view:clear and php artisan route:clear after upgrading all packages to flush the view and route cache.

[mattstauffer]

ℹ️ If you are running MySQL prior to version 5.7.7, you may receive a specified key was too long error. You can either upgrade your MySQL or review this post for code to resolve this issue.

[mattstauffer]

Todo:

• Convert scripts to a stack because using @parent doesn't work the same in 5.4