Publishing Laravel

Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks that has numerous features to facilitate web application development. One of these features is the publishing system. In Laravel, there are different publishings available for implementing various programs that are located in the config folder. These publishings allow you to easily change the behavior of your program without the need to alter the original source code.

However, sometimes you may want to publish a specific publishing from a package that is used in your project; in these cases, Laravel will grant you the publishing capability. By using this capability, you can publish a package's publishing with suitable options in your own project and make desired changes to them.

Typically, publishing is performed through the command line using the command php artisan vendor:publish. You can use this command to publish package files, annotations, migrations, and other files from a service provider. Once the publishing is done, you can find it in the config folder and make the necessary changes.

These changes can help you adjust the default behaviors that may not always fit your project’s needs. For example, you might want to change the configurations related to a specific service provider to suit particular requirements that you have. These adjustments do not require manual changes on the original package files and should be fully compatible with future updates of the package.

Following, here's an example of how to publish files from a specific package:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Package\Namespace\ServiceProvider" --tag="config"

In this command, the use of the argument --provider specifies to Laravel which package should be published. Similarly, using --tag determines which type of files (in this case, the configuration files) should be published.