Looking for a general guide line to move big wordpress project to laravel.

Hi, I am running a realtime application for chat, video and audio in a Wordpress environment. Used items

Wordpress 6.x
Asterisk PBX (https://www.asterisk.org)
RatchetPHP for web sockets (https://github.com/ratchetphp/Ratchet)
PeerJS for live video (https://peerjs.com)
PHP 8.1+, MariaDB, NGINX on ubuntu 22.04
JsSip UA for web calls within asterisk (webRTC), (https://jssip.net)

The problem is ratchetPHP which looks like a dead project to me. I never worked with laravel before. So my questions are:

Does laravel has any user / role management option ?
Does laravel has any CMS module that is equivalent to Wordpress ?
Does laravel has any Websocket options ?

I am not new to programming in OOP / MVC. What is the best way to start learning Laravel? And how long will it take you to become a decent Laravel developer ? ( days, weeks, month ?).

Thank you for your info

Regards Jerome

MohamedTammam

2 years ago

Level 51

Your questions may have different answers different on each developer.

Here's my answers:

Laravel has built in authorization functionality: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/authorization And for more advanced control you can use the well developed and popular Spatie package for roles and permissions: https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-permission/v5/introduction
For CMS there's https://statamic.com which is starting to get more popularity. It's good for content management but not it isn't close to WordPress (nothing is)
Laravel has many pre configured real-time options https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/broadcasting

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