Lumen Micro Framework => php artisan key:generate

Question

I\'m trying out the PHP micro Framework Lumen (from Laravel).

One of my first steps was to look into the .env.example file and make a copy of it to have my

Answer 1

1.Open your terminal setup file:

vim ~/.zshrc

2.Create an alias for generating random strings:

# Lumen Key Generate
alias lumen-key="php -r \"require 'vendor/autoload.php'; echo base64_encode(str_random(32)).PHP_EOL;\""

3.Get a key whenever you need:

~/your-lumen-project via                                                                     

                                                        
            

Answer 2

For me the easiest way to generate a Lumen key is typing on console one of these commands:

date | md5
date | md5sum

or

openssl rand -base64 24

depending of your environment. In my case, I aways use date | md5 on mac

Answer 3

The Laravel command is fairly simple. It just generates a random 32 character long string. You can do the same in Lumen. Just temporarily add a route like this:

$router->get('/key', function() {
    return \Illuminate\Support\Str::random(32);
});

Then go to /key in your browser and copy paste the key into your .env file.
Afterwards remove the route.

Obviously you could also use some random string generator online. Like this one

Answer 4

Run php -a to start up interactive php playground.

Then run echo substr(md5(rand()), 0, 32); to generate a 32 character string.

You can then copy/paste into the .env file.

Answer 5

To generate key and use laravel command you need to install one package. The details are as below:

1. You have to install package composer require flipbox/lumen-generator
2. You have to add $app->register(Flipbox\LumenGenerator\LumenGeneratorServiceProvider::class); into bootstrap/app.php file.

Link: https://github.com/flipboxstudio/lumen-generator

Answer 6

Firstly, you have to register your key generator command, put this Lumen Key Generator Commands to app/Console/Commands/KeyGenerateCommand.php. To make this command available in artisan, change app\Console\Kernel.php:

/**
 * The Artisan commands provided by your application.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $commands = [
    'App\Console\Commands\KeyGenerateCommand',
];

After that, configure your application so that Illuminate\Config\Repository instance has app.key value. To do this, change bootstrap/app.php:

<?php

require_once __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

Dotenv::load(__DIR__.'/../');

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Create The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here we will load the environment and create the application instance
| that serves as the central piece of this framework. We'll use this
| application as an "IoC" container and router for this framework.
|
*/

$app = new Laravel\Lumen\Application(
    realpath(__DIR__.'/../')
);

$app->configure('app');

After that, copy your .env.example file to .env:

cp .env.example .env

Ignore this step if you already use .env file.

Enjoy you key:generate command via:

php artisan key:generate

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Edit

You may use Lumen Generator. It covers so much commands you are missing from Laravel.