POData-Laravel-Northwind

This is a minimal Laravel 5.1 application to verify that the POData-Laravel package (https://github.com/AlgoWeb/POData-Laravel) actually does what it says on the tin and integrates with Laravel.

Thank you to Kyrylo Kostiukov (https://github.com/kirill533) for prodding me to get some very basic setup instructions written and kindly testing earlier versions of this document.

0. Clone out project.
1. Run composer install.
2. Copy .env.example to .env.
3. This step depends on which DB you're using:
4. SQLite:
   • Create database/database.sqlite.
   • Alter the DB_CONNECTION=mysql line in .env to DB_CONNECTION=sqlite.
5. Other DB:
   • Change the DB_CONNECTION, DB_HOST, DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME and DB_PASSWORD values to match the DB you're using - 'mysql' for MySQL/MariaDB, 'pgsql' for PostgreSQL, 'sqlsrv' for SQL Server.
6. Generate application key with php artisan key:generate.
7. Smoke-check your database connection with php artisan migrate:status. If it throws an error, double-check (and fix) your DB_ settings in your .env file.
8. Migrate and seed application with php artisan migrate --seed.
9. If you are running locally and just want to get something running to play with, add a line to your .env file with APP_DISABLE_AUTH=true . Don't do this if your POData-Laravel-NorthWind instance is externally accessible.
10. Otherwise, set up a test user by:
    • Running php artisan tinker.
    • When tinker boots, run DB::table('users')->insert(['name'=>'MyUsername','email'=>'thisis@myemail.com','password'=>Hash::make('123456')]); . You can freely change the name and email values, and the password value that is passed to the Hash:make call.
    • Quit tinker with Ctrl-C.
11. Serve application with php artisan serve.
12. Browse to http://localhost:8000/odata.svc in your browser of choice..

License

POData-Laravel-Northwind is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license