Rinvex Cortex is a solid foundation for enterprise solutions, that provides a flexible and extensible architecture for building multi-lingual, multi-tenant applications with content management, themeable views, application modules and much more.
This project uses Laravel framework, but it has its own modular architecture, that's different from the default vanilla structure. Rinvex Cortex is built of modules, and modules are the core building blocks and at the heart of it. Modules are first citizens and everything within the entire application is built of a module, even it's basic fundamental building block that drives the whole system. Everything here is part of a module! Once installed, you can check the automatically populated structure inside the app
directory to get familiar with it.
The project also supports multi-tenant, multi-domain, and multiple access areas, such as: adminarea, frontarea, managerarea, and tenantarea. Each access area is dedicated for a different user type, like: admins, managers, and members. Each type can access only their access areas, and have their own guards and authentication/authorization.
This project is currently under heavy development, and may not have the level of support you're looking for, but for the record it's been used for multiple live enterprise solutions on production. Still, use at your own responsibility, and note that it changes rapidly.
To install Rinvex Cortex, just run the following command on your terminal:
composer create-project rinvex/cortex
This will create a new project based on Rinvex Cortex, install the default modules, and prepare the project for your development.
Before you start working with this project, make sure you're familiar with the modular architecture of our system. The steps is straight forward and should be easy to implement. It's supposed that you're running homestead on vagrant machine, with the default setup, using PHP 7.1+ and MySQL 5.7.8+, or any similar environment like rinvex/punnet. If you follow the steps below, you should get it done in less than 10 minutes regardless of your experience level. Make sure to create a new database for the new project, and ensure you've local domain ready you can use.
composer create-project rinvex/cortex cortex-demo
Replace the following pseudo variables with your values in the following commands, then execute from terminal (inside the new project directory):
YOUR_DATABASE_HOST_HERE
YOUR_DATABASE_NAME_HERE
YOUR_DATABASE_USERNAME_HERE
YOUR_DATABASE_PASSWORD_HERE
sed -i "s/DB_HOST=.*/DB_HOST=YOUR_DATABASE_HOST_HERE/" .env
sed -i "s/DB_DATABASE=.*/DB_DATABASE=YOUR_DATABASE_NAME_HERE/" .env
sed -i "s/DB_USERNAME=.*/DB_USERNAME=YOUR_DATABASE_USERNAME_HERE/" .env
sed -i "s/DB_PASSWORD=.*/DB_PASSWORD=YOUR_DATABASE_PASSWORD_HERE/" .env
Install the project
php artisan cortex:install
npm install
npm run dev
Important: You'll need to update your localhost project domains in config app.domains
for the project to run smoothly.
The rest of documentation will be ready soon..
Create public disk symbolic link
php artisan storage:link
To create a new module run the following command
php artisan make:module cortex/boards
To see all the available command line tools, run the following command:
php artisan list
If you're using any browser streaming features, and would like to disable output buffering, then make sure your PHP & nginx settings are set up correctly, with buffering turned off, so you can stream content to the browser.
fastcgi_buffering off;
output_buffering = off
zlib.output_compression = off
Notes:
- If you changed any
.env
environment variables, or any of their references, make sure to runnpm run dev
to update the public assets, as it reference some of it.