Upgrade Guide

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We like to keep things as modern as possible and have a "release early, often release" approach to major releases. Meaning, we won't wait an arbitrary number of months to accumulate big changes and release the next major version. By releasing major versions often, new features will be out earlier, and upgrading between versions will be much easier.

We try to document all possible breaking changes. Some of these changes are internal calls, so only some of these changes may actually affect your application.

Upgrading to 9.0 from 8.x

Updating dependencies

In your composer.json file, update the orchid/platform dependency to ^9.0

Auth

The Laravel team has introduced new products Jetstream and Fortify, which replace the earlier laravel/ui. To ensure compatibility with various options, the dependency on laravel/ui has been removed. And with it, the ability to recover your password.

New products provide two-factor user authentication, as well as a view of the last active sessions. In order not to compete with them, the same features were removed from the package.

Although migrations have been removed, the data stored in the database will not be removed automatically. To dismiss them, you need to execute the following SQL code:

ALTER TABLE "users"
    DROP COLUMN "last_login"
    DROP COLUMN "uses_two_factor_auth"
    DROP COLUMN "two_factor_secret_code"
    DROP COLUMN "two_factor_recovery_code";

DELETE FROM migrations
WHERE migration = '2020_06_07_184338_added_columns_for_2fa';

After that, you need to remove the column data from your user model.

Upgrading to 8.0 from 7.x

Updating dependencies

In your composer.json file, update the orchid/platform dependency to ^8.0

TinyMCE editor

The HTML editor has been removed from the standard distribution. The code has been moved to a separate repository.

Settings model

The settings model has also been removed. Data stored in the database will not be deleted automatically. To remove them, you need to execute the following SQL code:

DROP TABLE settings;

DELETE FROM migrations
WHERE migration = '2015_12_02_181214_create_table_settings';

The source code is available for installation as a separate package.

Bread crumbs

Package davejamesmiller/laravel-breadcrumbs is replaced with tabuna/breadcrumbs and should be installed automatically when the dependencies are updated.

Note: It may be necessary to remove the boot cache files in the bootstrap/cache directory.

The syntax of the new package allows you to display breadcrumbs right in the route definition:

Route::screen('example', ExampleScreen::class)
    ->name('platform.example')
    ->breadcrumbs(function (Trail $trail) {
        return $trail->parent('platform.index')->push(__('Example screen'));
    });

Alternatively, you can continue to use a separate file for them. To do this, you need to download it to the service provider:

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Bootstrap the application events.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        require base_path('routes/breadcrumbs.php');
    }
}

If you used full class names, then you need to replace them with similar ones:

use Tabuna\Breadcrumbs\Breadcrumbs;
use Tabuna\Breadcrumbs\Trail;

Screen changes

Constructor

Passing a Request object and calling the parent class is no longer necessary. Before:

class PublicationScreen extends Screen
{
    public function __construct(Request $request, Locator $locator)
    {
        $this->request = $request;
        $this->locator = $locator;
    }
}

The definition now looks like this:

class PublicationScreen extends Screen
{
    public function __construct(Locator $locator)
    {
        $this->locator = $locator;
    }
}

Route methods

Methods not used have been removed. It is no longer possible to access screens via the PUT|PATCH|DELETE methods, the call must use GET|POSTS to receive/send data.

Method           | URI                                  | Name
-----------------+--------------------------------------+--------------
GET|HEAD|POST    | dashboard/idea/{method?}             | platform.idea

Now, screen methods awaiting a model, if not present, will implement an empty model as well as controllers. More.

Data spoofing (Async)

The {argument?} Expectation has been removed from the address bar. Now a separate route is used for the call:

$this->router
    ->post('async/{screen}/{method?}/{template?}', [AsyncController::class, 'load'])
    ->name('async');

Layouts

Each layer now inherits from the class Orchid\Screen\Layout, rather than from Orchid\Screen\Layouts\Base.

To declare layers via short syntax, the Orchid\Support\Facades\Layout facade should now be used instead of the Orchid\Screen\Layout class.

It was:

use Orchid\Screen\Layout;

Layout::row([
     // ...
]);

Became:

use Orchid\Support\Facades\Layout;

Layout::row([
     // ...
]);

Release message

A system message informed users that a new version of the package was released. But they have no way to update without the help of a developer. This was more annoying than keeping the software up to date. Therefore, it was removed, if you used it (By default only on the first screen), then you should remove its call as well as the blade template. Screen call example:

return [
    'status' => Dashboard::checkUpdate(),
];

Using a template in the screen:

Layout::view('platform::partials.update');

Icons

The icon display has been changed from font to SVG format. Now the ->icon methods do not accept the css value to be set, but the file name. In most cases, you only need to remove the icon- prefix.