Install Josh

We try to minimise use of third party packages but sentry is one package which provides many features out of box so we use it.

Setup sentry

Add Sentry to composer

Open your composer.json file and add the following to the require array:

"cartalyst/sentry": "2.1.*",

now in your command prompt run composer update and all required files will be added

Add sentry service provider

Now, we need to add sentry service provider to make use of it.

Open app/config/app.php and add following lines

In the $providers array add the following service provider

'Cartalyst\Sentry\SentryServiceProvider',

In the $aliases array add the following facade

'Sentry' => 'Cartalyst\Sentry\Facades\Laravel\Sentry',

Now we need to add user, groups etc tables to database, to do so in your command prompt, execute following code

php artisan migrate --package=cartalyst/sentry

Now we need to publish config, so that you can edit configuration, if needed

Excecute following command in command prompt/terminal

php artisan config:publish cartalyst/sentry

please headover to sentry website to learn more about it

Add admin user

As database tables have been setup, we need to add admin user to be able to login into adminCP.

Run following command in your command prompt

php artisan db:seed

A default admin user with user with username [e-mail] and password admin will be created

Optional: If you wish to use a different username or password, please open app\database\seeds\AdminSeeder.php and edit values around lines 14-18

Adding extra fields to users table

We have added many other fields to users table, you can add all those fields by executing below command in command prompt/terminal

php artisan migrate

Note: please check all files in app/database/migrations to know what fields are being added.