[WIP] Orchestra Platform v3.2.0

[crynobone]

We would love to get your feedback and ideas for Orchestra Platform 3.2. Just post them here.

The following lists are a short roundup of all feature requests below (hope I did not miss one) and what our thoughts are about them. I will update the list if new ideas are posted.

Platform

• Bump minimum requirement to PHP 5.6.0.

  Components

  Extension

• [x] Add support to allow configurable extension route caching. orchestral/extension#55
• [x] Retrieve version number directly from composer.lock. orchestral/extension#56
• [x] Allow to register extension service provider based on when() event. orchestral/extension#57
• [x] Remove less relevant data stored in memory. orchestral/extension#58
• [x] Simplified registering extension configuration via Orchestra\Extension\Plugin.

  Facile

• [x] Allow to get proper response based on Accept header (via content-negotiation). orchestral/facile#10

  Foundation

• [x] Remove default support to orchestra/resources. orchestral/foundation#187
• [x] Remove unmaintained it language files. orchestral/foundation@99aa686
• [x] Defer orchestra/foundation routes registration after extension has been loaded. orchestral/foundation#185
• [x] Allow safe mode to persist between request. orchestral/foundation#189
• [x] Remove Orchestra\Foundation\AdminMenuHandler. orchestral/foundation#191

  Imagine

• [x] Create dispatchable job that you can use to resize an image. orchestral/imagine#15

  Kernel

• [x] Remove deprecated route filters. orchestral/kernel@3ba34ed

  Support

• [x] Orchestra\Support\Expression should implements Illuminate\Contracts\Support\Htmlable. orchestral/support#39

  Testbench

• [x] Remove Behat. orchestral/testbench#95

[stewhouston]

Hi, I'm a bit rusty with Laravel and am brand new to Orchestra. I'm finding the documentation a bit lacking. I'm curious with the Resources extension, where exactly am I supposed to be including the Event::listen hook?

Similarly, I'd like to add several Widgets to the /admin homepage, but I'm not sure where I'm supposed to begin adding my code.

[crynobone]

I'm curious with the Resources extension, where exactly am I supposed to be including the Event::listen hook?

You can stop using Resources extension (it has been marked as deprecated) and focus on http://orchestraplatform.com/docs/3.1/routing

Similarly, I'd like to add several Widgets to the /admin homepage, but I'm not sure where I'm supposed to begin adding my code.

You could do it via View Composers (I recommend creating classes for it). http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/views#view-composers