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📢 Announcements plugin for Vanguard - Advanced PHP Login and User Management system.

Installation

This plugin requires Vanguard 12.0.0 or greater.

Installation via Composer

To install the plugin first you will need to pull it via composer by running the following command

The composer will install the plugin for you as well as its dependencies.

The next step is to register the plugin by adding the \Vanguard\Announcements\Announcements::class to the list of Vanguard plugins inside the VanguardServiceProvider:

As soon as your plugin is registered, you should publish the plugins static assets and migrations by running the following command:

And, as the last step of the installation, you will need to run the following commands to make all the necessary database modifications:

At this point the plugin will be fully installed and ready to go.

Manual Installation

If you plan to make the modifications to the plugin and customize it to fit your needs, it's much easier if you add it to your project manually.

To do so, you will need to download the ZIP archive from GitHub by clicking the green "Clone or download" button and then choosing the "Download ZIP" option from the dropdown.

Once you have the ZIP file on your computer, extract it to the plugins/Announcements folder (you will need to create this folder since it probably won't be present in your Vanguard installation).

Next step is to update your main composer.json file located in Vanguard's root directory and add the following object to the repositories array:

This will tell the composer that your plugin is located in /plugins/Announcements directory and that it should be installed from there.

Now, add the following to the composer's require section

And run composer update.

Composer will now install the plugin from your local directory instead of pulling it from GitHub, which means that you will be able to make the changes to the plugin itself and customize it to fit your needs.

The rest of the process is the same as when the plugin is installed by directly fetching it via composer from the GitHub repository, so you will need to do all the same steps as above, which in short involves updating the VanguardServiceProvider and running the commands to publish plugin's static assets and to update the database.

Tests

The suite runs against a Vanguard application, because this plugin is written for Vanguard rather than for Laravel in general: its listeners subscribe to App\Events\* and its controllers extend the host's base controller.

tests/bootstrap.php boots that application's autoloader. This repository has no vendor directory of its own and nothing to composer install: the suite runs on the host's Pest binary.

Setting up the host

Keep a Vanguard checkout beside this repository, and install the plugin into it as a path repository, since the host's autoloader is what maps Vanguard\Announcements\ onto src. In the host's composer.json:

Required from a tag instead, the suite exercises the release sitting in the host's vendor directory and silently ignores your edits.

Running the suite

Arguments go after --. PHPUnit reads its configuration from the working directory, so the phpunit.xml here is the one that applies and the usual selectors behave as they normally do:

If the checkout is not at ../vanguard, point VANGUARD_PATH at it. This is also the hook a pipeline uses:

That default is expanded by the shell, which Windows cmd does not do. Call the binary directly there:

Why the host's binary

Pest takes its root from the autoloader beside the binary, which is the host. It boots the host's tests/Pest.php and never one placed here, so every file in this suite names its base class with uses() rather than relying on a shared bootstrap.

License

This plugin is an open-source software licensed under the MIT license.