Upgrade a Laravel Package from 5.0 to 5.1

The Laravel Package 5.1 Shift automates the upgrade of your Laravel package from Laravel 5.0 to Laravel 5.1. Using the Laravel Package 5.1 Shift to automatically upgrade your Laravel package has an estimated time savings of 2 hours.

Requirements

A Laravel package running Laravel 5.0.

Core Upgrades

The Laravel Package 5.1 Shift automates many of the upgrades listed in the Laravel Upgrade Guide, including:

  • Upgrading Commands and Events classes to Job and Listeners, respectively.
  • Changing the method signatures on Eloquent's create and find methods.
  • Upgrading object references for Laravel 5.1.

Additional Upgrades

In addition to the Core Upgrades, the Laravel Package 5.1 Shift performs additional upgrades beyond those listed in the Laravel Upgrade Guide, including:

  • Adopting the PSR-2 coding style to match the coding style in Laravel.
  • Upgrading bindings to take advantage of the PHP 5.5 ::class property.
  • Changing instances of RedirectResponse to use the redirect method directly.

Manual Upgrades

There are some upgrades the Laravel Package 5.1 Shift can not perform automatically. When Shift detects these upgrades it adds a detailed comment on the Pull Request to help guide the manual upgrade.

  • Several of the Collection methods changed in Laravel 5.1. Given the dynamic nature of PHP and the various ways to implement these methods in Laravel, Shift can not reliably update these method calls automatically.
  • Blade extensions changed in Laravel 5.1. Shift can not reliably convert to the new directive method.

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