Vaah Framework

If you love laravel you'll love this wordpress plugin framework too.

WordPress is a great CMS, but lacks MVC. Then I tried Laravel an awesome php framework loved by many. Hence, thought to create a bridge between WordPress & Laravel without losing the flexibility of a framework.

By installing this framework, you're actually install laravel as plugin and you'll be controlling the backend as well as the frontend of the plugin with no WordPress limitations.

You'll able to use almost everything similar to laravel like routes, controllers, migrations, models, blade templates etc

Setup

Step 1

Create a folder as vaah-framework in your WordPress plugins folder extract this repository in the folder or clone this repository in your plugins folder.

Step 2

Run following command to install all plugin dependencies.

composer install

Then Run

composer dump-autoload

Step 3

Login to your WordPress admin > plugins and activate Vaah Framework. And plugin is ready for development.

Migrations

Initialize the migrations

Use any command line tool and navigate to Vaah plugins folder and run:

vendor\bin\phinx init

Phinx is being used to manage migrations.

Create migrations

Run

php vaah create tableName --template=phinx-template.php.dist

This will create a migration file under app/Migration/db folder.

Below is sample migration file. You may consider to read Phinx documentation to create these migration files. These are almost similar to laravel migration files.

use \Vaah\Migration\Migration;

class VaahTasks extends Migration
{

    public function up()
    {
        $this->schema->create('vaah_tasks', function(Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint $table){
            // Auto-increment id
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('name')->nullable();
            $table->integer('vaah_catogary_id')->nullable();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    //-----------------------------------------------------

    public function down()
    {
        $this->schema->drop('vaah_tasks');
    }

}

Run Migrations

Use following command to run migrations:

php vaah migrate

Rollback Migrations

Use following command to rollback migrations:

php vaah rollback

Reset Migrations

Use following command to reset migrations:

php vaah rollback -t 0

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