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with the IoC container (which App extends). If you need to do other bootstrapping stuff then the
method you need to use is boot():
1 public function boot()
2 {
3 Model::setConnectionResolver($this->app['db']);
4 Model::setEventDispatcher($this->app['events']);
5 }
This was extracted from vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/DatabaseServiceProvider.php.
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This boot() method sets two properties on the Model class. The same class also has a register method
but these two settings are pet for the boot method.
You can learn more about service providers at: http://laravel.com/docs/packages#service-providers.
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Organising Code
Now that we have some tools to help us create packages; we need to port our code over from being
application code to being a package. Laravel 4 provides a useful method for creating some structure
to our package:
1 php artisan workbench Formativ/Deployment
You’ll notice a new folder has been created, called workbench. Within this folder you’ll find an
assortment of files arranged in a similar way to those in the vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/*
folders.
We need to break all of the business logic (regarding deployment) into individual classes, making
use of the IoC container and dependency injection, and make a public API.
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We’re not going to spend a lot of time discussing the intricacies of the deployment classes/scripts
we made in the last tutorial. Refer to it if you want more of those details.