Okay, So I'm trying to update a package that I used a good deal with Laravel 4 to be compatible with Laravel 5, since the original repository hasn't had any updates for a while and it needed a few tweaks to work with Laravel 5.
I have made the necessary changes, and created a pull request to the original repository.
I noticed the unit tests had failed, though, so I tried digging into it. I haven't done anything with PHPUnit so far, so I figured this would be a good learning experience.
I'm not asking for help with the error displayed on github. I managed to get past that error, but I achieved this by removing some tests, which of course isn't an actual solution, thus these changes are not committed. I will fix that once I have a better understanding of how unit testing works.
The problem I seem to be having is that one of Laravel's helper functions is being used in the default config file of the package, it is saying the function base_path() is undefined.
As I understand, PHPUnit works with classes and I would need to mock the function in order for it to be used. Can't seem to find a straight answer HOW to do that.
Since it's pointing a config variable to a folder which doesn't exist in my repository hierarchy, I'm not even sure what it should return.
The file that's causing the issue is the default config located in polyglot/config/polyglot.php
return [
// Whether to swap out the facades (Router, Lang, etc) with
// Polyglot's, disable this if you need other packages to do the same
// Can specify an array of facades to swap, eg. ['Lang', 'URL']
'facades' => true,
// Locales
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// The default locale if none is provided in the URL
// Leave empty to force the use of locales prefixes in URLs
'default' => 'en',
// The fallback locale for translations
// If null, the default locale is used
'fallback' => null,
// The available locales
'locales' => [],
// Gettext
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// The domain of your translations, for gettext use
'domain' => 'messages',
// Where the PO/MO files reside
'folder' => base_path('resources/lang'),
// Format of the compiled files
'file' => '{domain}.po',
// Database
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// The pattern Polyglot should follow to find the Lang classes
// Examples are "Lang\{model}", "{model}Lang", where {model}
// will be replaced by the model's name
'model_pattern' => '{model}Lang',
];
So, what is typical to do in this situation? Define the function manually? Include the helper file somehow? Or discard the use of the function and go with a solution using basic php directory references? Any help would be appreciated.
