Legacy CodeIgniter3 to Laravel

This project helps you upgrade your CodeIgniter3 apps to Laravel.

• The goal is to reduce upgrade costs.
• It provides compatible interfaces for common use cases in CodeIgniter3 apps.
• It also provides compatible interfaces to test code using ci-phpunit-test.
• It does not aim to be 100% compatible.
• This project is under early development.
• This project is under early development.
• This project is under early development.
  • We welcome Pull Requests!

Requirements

• Laravel 11.x or later
• PHP 8.0 or later

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require mudassar1/legacy-to-laravel

Usage

If you use legacy-to-laravel, You can run the following code on Laravel.

Connect to Database

Open file config/database.php to configuration

'connections' => [
    'mysql' => [
        // codeigniter3 legacy config database
        'dsn'          => env('DATABASE_URL'),
        'hostname'     => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'dbdriver'     => 'mysqli',
        'dbprefix'     => '',
        'pconnect'     => false,
        'db_debug'     => (env('APP_ENV') !== 'production'),
        'cache_on'     => false,
        'cachedir'     => '',
        'char_set'     => 'utf8mb4',
        'dbcollat'     => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
        'swap_pre'     => '',
        'encrypt'      => false,
        'compress'     => false,
        'stricton'     => false,
        'failover'     => [],
        'save_queries' => true
    ],
],

app/Http/Controllers/News.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\News_model;
use mudassar1\Legacy\Core\CI_Controller;
use mudassar1\Legacy\Library\CI_Form_validation;

/**
 * @property News_model $news_model
 * @property CI_Form_validation $form_validation
 */
class News extends CI_Controller
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();

        $this->load->database();
        $this->load->model('news_model');
        $this->load->helper('url_helper');
    }

    public function index()
    {
        $data['news']  = $this->news_model->get_news();
        $data['title'] = 'News archive';

        $this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
        $this->load->view('news/index', $data);
        $this->load->view('templates/footer');
    }

    public function view($slug = null)
    {
        $data['news_item'] = $this->news_model->get_news($slug);

        if (empty($data['news_item'])) {
            show_404();
        }

        $data['title'] = $data['news_item']['title'];

        $this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
        $this->load->view('news/view', $data);
        $this->load->view('templates/footer');
    }

    public function create()
    {
        $this->load->helper('form');
        $this->load->library('form_validation');

        $data['title'] = 'Create a news item';

        $this->form_validation->set_rules('title', 'Title', 'required');
        $this->form_validation->set_rules('text', 'Text', 'required');

        if ($this->form_validation->run() === false) {
            $this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
            $this->load->view('news/create');
            $this->load->view('templates/footer');
        } else {
            $this->news_model->set_news();
            $this->load->view('news/success');
        }
    }
}

app/Models/News_model.php

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use mudassar1\Legacy\Core\CI_Model;

class News_model extends CI_Model
{
    public function get_news($slug = false)
    {
        if ($slug === false) {
            $query = $this->db->get('news');
            return $query->result_array();
        }

        $query = $this->db->get_where('news', ['slug' => $slug]);
        return $query->row_array();
    }

    public function set_news()
    {
        $this->load->helper('url');

        $slug = url_title($this->input->post('title'), '-', true);

        $data = [
            'title' => $this->input->post('title'),
            'slug'  => $slug,
            'text'  => $this->input->post('text')
        ];

        return $this->db->insert('news', $data);
    }
}

/resources/views/news/create.php

<h2><?php echo $title; ?></h2>

<?php echo validation_errors(); ?>

<?php echo form_open('news/create'); ?>

    <label for="title">Title</label>
    <input type="input" name="title" /><br />

    <label for="text">Text</label>
    <textarea name="text"></textarea><br />

    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Create news item" />

</form>

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• Kenji Suzuki
• Agung Sugiarto
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.