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Installation

Work In Progress

Version 1.x is very much in-development. It is incomplete and not production ready.

Server Requirements

  • PHP ^8.2
  • Laravel 10+
  • MySQL 8.0+ / PostgreSQL 9.2+
  • exif PHP extension (on most systems it will be installed by default)
  • intl PHP extension (on most systems it will be installed by default)
  • bcmath PHP extension (on most systems it will be installed by default)
  • GD PHP extension (used for image manipulation)

Install Lunar

Composer Require Package

sh
composer require lunarphp/lunar:"^1.0.0-alpha" -W

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You may need to update your app's composer.json to set "minimum-stability": "dev",

Add the LunarUser Trait

Some parts of the core rely on the User model having certain relationships set up. We've bundled these into a trait which you must add to any models that represent users in your database.

php
use Lunar\Base\Traits\LunarUser;
// ...

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use LunarUser;
    // ...
}

Register the admin panel

The admin panel needs registering in your app service provider before you can use it.

php
use Lunar\Admin\Support\Facades\LunarPanel;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function register(): void
    {
        LunarPanel::register();
    }

Run the Artisan Installer

sh
php artisan lunar:install

This will take you through a set of questions to configure your Lunar install. The process includes...

  • Creating a default admin user (if required)
  • Seeding initial data
  • Inviting you to star our repo on GitHub ⭐

You should now be able to access the panel at https://<yoursite>/lunar.

Advanced Installation Options

Before you run the Lunar installer command, you may wish to customise some of the set-up.

Publish Configuration

sh
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=lunar

Table Prefix

Lunar uses table prefixes to avoid conflicts with your app's tables. You can change this in the configuration.

User ID Field Type

Lunar assumes your User ID field is a "BIGINT". If you are using an "INT" or "UUID", you will want to update the configuration in config/lunar/database.php to set the correct field type before running the migrations.

Publish Migrations

You can optionally publish Lunar's migrations so they're added to your Laravel app.

sh
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=lunar.migrations

Early Opt-In Laravel 11 Support

WARNING

Laravel 11 has now been released. We are working on full support for Laravel 11, but it is not yet complete. If you want to try Lunar with Laravel 11. You can use our dev-laravel-11 branch of this repository.

Forked Repositories

Only one of our dependencies has been forked to support Laravel 11. You can use the following fork to install Lunar with Laravel 11.

You can use this fork by updating your main project composer.json to include the following repository.

json
"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "vcs",
        "url": "https://github.com/adam-code-labx/converter.git"
    }
]