Using Laravel core in scripts built without it

Question

I have built a Laravel 3 application, it involves a lot of per-user content management.

For prototype and internal testing I got away with plain configuration of KCFinder, now we're about to start a closed beta.

Firstly, I must lock the KCFinder behind Laravel applications Auth system.
Secondly, I must configure the KCF with a per-user settings.

While it may seem like those are two questions, I doubt they are.

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My Laravel is installed in /srv/http/, KCFinder in /srv/http/public/php/kcfinder/.

KCFinder exposes two incoming files - browse.php and upload.php. These files include core/autoload.php, that ultimately ties the KCF together.

I tried requiring Laravel's public/index.php inside it, then tried to access something KCF (/php/kcfinder/browse.php) through browser. Got redirected to a mix of the request path and Laravel applications root route: /php/kcfinder/browser.

How could I prevent the Routing from Laravel and be able to use Laravel inside the KCF scope?

P.S. I did try to go the Bundle way, but apparently KCF is so poorly written that it appears that in order to Bundle it up, I'll have to rewrite everything there.

Answer 1

I managed to do it with a very, very dirty hack.

In /srv/http/public/php/kcfinder/core/autoload.php I appended the lines:

require '../../../paths.php';

require path('sys').'core.php';

\Laravel\Bundle::start(DEFAULT_BUNDLE);

$KCFinderRoot = addslashes(realpath(dirname(__FILE__). '/../') . DS);

\Laravel\Autoloader::map(array(
    'browser' => $KCFinderRoot . 'core/browser.php',
    'uploader' => $KCFinderRoot . 'core/uploader.php',
    'type_img' => $KCFinderRoot . 'core/types/type_img.php',
    'type_mime' => $KCFinderRoot . 'core/types/type_mime.php',
    'gd' => $KCFinderRoot . 'lib/class_gd.php',
    'input' => $KCFinderRoot . 'lib/class_input.php',
    'zipFolder' => $KCFinderRoot . 'lib/class_zipFolder.php',
    'dir' => $KCFinderRoot . 'lib/helper_dir.php',
    'file' => $KCFinderRoot . 'lib/helper_file.php',
    'httpCache' => $KCFinderRoot . 'lib/helper_httpCache.php',
    'path' => $KCFinderRoot . 'lib/helper_path.php',
    'text' => $KCFinderRoot . 'lib/helper_text.php',
));

if (!\Laravel\Auth::check())
{
    die('no user :(');
}

Wherever KCF had some file inclusions, I had to squeeze in $KCFinderRoot, in some methods even requiring to global them before.

In KCF's config I added:

// ...
'uploadURL' => "/useruploads/" . sha1(Auth::user()->id . Auth::user()->email),
'uploadDir' => path('public') . "useruploads/" . sha1(Auth::user()->id . Auth::user()->email),
// ...

The end result works like I wanted it to, except I have no idea how "smart" this is.

P.S. In the following days I'm going to try to bundle, IoC this up while leaving KCF files intact.