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Publishing Configuration Files
Often you’ll want to add new configuration files to the collection which ship with new Laravel
applications. There’s an artisan command to help with this:
1 php artisan config:publish formativ/deployment --path=workbench/Formativ/Deployme\
2 nt/src/config
This should copy the package configuration files into the app/config/packages/formativ/deployment
directory.
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Since we have access to a whole new kind of configuration; we no longer need to override the
configuration files for things like environment. As long as our helpers/macros use the package
configuration files instead of the the default ones; we can leave the underlying Laravel 4 application
structure (and bootstrapping code) untouched.
Creating Composer.json
Before we can publish our package, so that others can use it in their applications; we need to add a
few things to the composer.json file that the workbench command created for us:
1 {
2 "name" : "formativ/deployment",
3 "description" : "All sorts of cool things with deployment.",
4 "authors" : [
5 {
6 "name" : "Christopher Pitt",
7 "email" : "cgpitt@gmail.com"
8 }
9 ],
10 "require" : {
11 "php" : ">=5.4.0",
12 "illuminate/support" : "4.0.x"
13 },
14 "autoload" : {
15 "psr-0" : {
16 "Formativ\\Deployment" : "src/"
17 }