Installation

Requirements

Before we start, make sure you have the following installed:

• PHP 8.1 or later
• gRPC extension
• Any requirements found on Cloud Firestore for PHP website
• Laravel 9 or later (Recommended Latest Laravel version)
• Composer

Installation

1. Install this package using composer:

   composer require roddy/firestore-eloquent

2. Add the following line to the service providers array within your config/app.php file:

   Roddy\FirestoreEloquent\Providers\FModelProvider::class,

3. Copy and paste this to your .env file and replace path/to/firebase-credentials.json with the path to your credentials JSON file:

   GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=path/to/firebase-credentials.json

4. Copy and paste this to your .env file and replace https://<your-project>.firebaseio.com with the database URL for your project. You can find the database URL for your project at Firebase Console:

   FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL=https://<your-project>.firebaseio.com

5. Copy and paste this to your .env file and replace your-project-id with your project ID:

   FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID=your-project-id

6. Publish the package configuration using Artisan:

   php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Roddy\FirestoreEloquent\Providers\FModelProvider" --force

You can locate the configuration file in config/firebase.php.