refactoring bootstrapping.

application/config/application.php

@@ -66,25 +66,6 @@ return array(
 
 	'language' => 'en',
 
-	/*
-	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-	| Auto-Loaded Packages
-	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-	|
-	| The packages that should be auto-loaded each time Laravel handles a
-	| request. These should generally be packages that you use on almost every
-	| request to your application.
-	|
-	| Each package specified here will be bootstrapped and can be conveniently
-	| used by your application's routes, models, and libraries.
-	|
-	| Note: The package names in this array should correspond to a package
-	|       directory in application/packages.
-	|
-	*/
-
-	'libraries' => array(),
-
 	/*
 	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 	| SSL Link Generation

laravel/autoloader.php

@@ -56,9 +56,13 @@ class Autoloader {
 
 		$namespace = substr($class, 0, strpos($class, '\\'));
 
-		// If the namespace has been detected as a PSR-0 compliant library,
-		// we will load the library according to those naming conventions.
-		if (array_key_exists($namespace, static::$libraries))
+		// If the namespace has been registered as a PSR-0 compliant library, we will
+		// load the library according to the PSR-0 naming standards, which state that
+		// namespaces and underscores indicate the directory hierarchy of the class.
+		// The PSR-0 standard is exactly like the typical Laravel standard, the only
+		// difference being that Laravel files are all lowercase, while PSR-0 states
+		// that the file name should match the class name.
+		if (isset(static::$libraries[$namespace]))
 		{
 			return str_replace('_', '/', $file).EXT;
 		}
@@ -71,10 +75,12 @@ class Autoloader {
 			}
 		}
 
-		// If the file exists according to the PSR-0 naming conventions,
-		// we will add the namespace to the array of libraries and load
-		// the class according to the PSR-0 conventions.
-		if (file_exists($path = str_replace('_', '/', $file).EXT))
+		// If we could not find the class file in any of the auto-loaded locations
+		// according to the Laravel naming standard, we will search the libraries
+		// directory for the class according to the PSR-0 naming standard. If the
+		// file exists, we will add the class namespace to the array of registered
+		// libraries that are loaded following the PSR-0 standard.
+		if (file_exists($path = LIBRARY_PATH.str_replace('_', '/', $file).EXT))
 		{
 			static::$libraries[] = $namespace;
 

laravel/bootstrap/constants.php

-<?php
-
-define('EXT',       '.php');
-define('BLADE_EXT', '.blade.php');
-
-function constants($constants)
-{
-	foreach ($constants as $key => $value)
-	{
-		if ( ! defined($key)) define($key, $value);
-	}
-}
-
-/**
- * Register the core framework paths and all of the paths that
- * derive from them. If any constant has already been defined,
- * we will not attempt to define it again.
- */
-$constants = array(
-	'APP_PATH'     => realpath($application).'/',
-	'BASE_PATH'    => realpath("$laravel/..").'/',
-	'PUBLIC_PATH'  => realpath($public).'/',
-	'STORAGE_PATH' => realpath($storage).'/',
-	'SYS_PATH'     => realpath($laravel).'/',
-);
-
-constants($constants);
-
-unset($application, $public, $storage, $laravel);
-
-$constants = array(
-	'CACHE_PATH'      => STORAGE_PATH.'cache/',
-	'CONFIG_PATH'     => APP_PATH.'config/',
-	'CONTROLLER_PATH' => APP_PATH.'controllers/',
-	'DATABASE_PATH'   => STORAGE_PATH.'database/',
-	'LANG_PATH'       => APP_PATH.'language/',
-	'LIBRARY_PATH'    => APP_PATH.'libraries/',
-	'MODEL_PATH'      => APP_PATH.'models/',
-	'ROUTE_PATH'      => APP_PATH.'routes/',
-	'SESSION_PATH'    => STORAGE_PATH.'sessions/',
-	'SYS_CONFIG_PATH' => SYS_PATH.'config/',
-	'SYS_VIEW_PATH'   => SYS_PATH.'views/',
-	'VIEW_PATH'       => APP_PATH.'views/',
-);
-
-
-constants($constants);
-
-/**
- * Register the core framework paths and all of the paths that
- * derive from them. If any constant has already been defined,
- * we will not attempt to define it again.
- */
-$environment = (isset($_SERVER['LARAVEL_ENV'])) ? CONFIG_PATH.$_SERVER['LARAVEL_ENV'].'/' : '';
-
-constants(array('ENV_CONFIG_PATH' => $environment));
-
-unset($constants, $environment);
\ No newline at end of file

laravel/bootstrap/core.php

 <?php namespace Laravel;
 
-require 'constants.php';
+/**
+ * Define all of the constants used by the framework. All of the
+ * core paths will be defined, as well as all of the paths which
+ * derive from those core paths.
+ */
+define('EXT', '.php');
+define('CRLF', chr(13).chr(10));
+define('BLADE_EXT', '.blade.php');
 
+define('APP_PATH', realpath($application).'/');
+define('BASE_PATH', realpath("$laravel/..").'/');
+define('PUBLIC_PATH', realpath($public).'/');
+define('STORAGE_PATH', realpath($storage).'/');
+define('SYS_PATH', realpath($laravel).'/');
+
+define('CACHE_PATH', STORAGE_PATH.'cache/');
+define('CONFIG_PATH', APP_PATH.'config/');
+define('CONTROLLER_PATH', APP_PATH.'controllers/');
+define('DATABASE_PATH', STORAGE_PATH.'database/');
+define('LANG_PATH', APP_PATH.'language/');
+define('LIBRARY_PATH', APP_PATH.'libraries/');
+define('MODEL_PATH', APP_PATH.'models/');
+define('ROUTE_PATH', APP_PATH.'routes/');
+define('SESSION_PATH', STORAGE_PATH.'sessions/');
+define('SYS_CONFIG_PATH', SYS_PATH.'config/');
+define('SYS_VIEW_PATH', SYS_PATH.'views/');
+define('VIEW_PATH', APP_PATH.'views/');
+
+/**
+ * Define the Laravel environment configuration path. This path is
+ * used by the configuration class to load configuration options
+ * specific for the server environment.
+ */
+$environment = '';
+
+if (isset($_SERVER['LARAVEL_ENV']))
+{
+	$environment = CONFIG_PATH.$_SERVER['LARAVEL_ENV'].'/';
+}
+
+define('ENV_CONFIG_PATH', $environment);
+
+unset($application, $public, $storage, $laravel, $environment);
+
+/**
+ * Require all of the classes that can't be loaded by the auto-loader.
+ * These are typically classes that the auto-loader itself relies upon
+ * to load classes, such as the array and configuration classes.
+ */
 require SYS_PATH.'arr'.EXT;
 require SYS_PATH.'config'.EXT;
 require SYS_PATH.'facades'.EXT;
 require SYS_PATH.'container'.EXT;
 require SYS_PATH.'autoloader'.EXT;
 
+/**
+ * Load a few of the core configuration files that are loaded for
+ * every request to the application. It is quicker to load them
+ * manually rather than parse the keys for every request.
+ */
 Config::load('application');
 Config::load('container');
 Config::load('session');
 
+/**
+ * Bootstrap the application inversion of control container.
+ * The IoC container is responsible for resolving classes and
+ * their dependencies, and helps keep the framework flexible.
+ */
 IoC::bootstrap();
 
+/**
+ * Register the Autoloader's "load" method on the auto-loader stack.
+ * This method provides the lazy-loading of all class files, as well
+ * as any PSR-0 compliant libraries used by the application.
+ */
 spl_autoload_register(array('Laravel\\Autoloader', 'load'));
 
+/**
+ * Define a few convenient functions to make our lives as
+ * developers a little more easy and enjoyable.
+ */
 function e($value)
 {
 	return HTML::entities($value);

laravel/bootstrap/errors.php

@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ $message = function($e)
 };
 
 /**
- * Define a clousre that will return a more readable version
- * of the severity of an exception. This function will be used
- * by the error handler when parsing exceptions.
+ * Define a closure that will return a more readable version of
+ * the severity of an exception. This function will be used by
+ * the error handler when parsing exceptions.
  */
 $severity = function($e)
 {

laravel/input.php

@@ -64,24 +64,24 @@ class Input {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Determine if the old input data contains an item.
+	 * Flash the input for the current request to the session.
 	 *
-	 * @param  string  $key
-	 * @return bool
+	 * @return void
 	 */
-	public static function had($key)
+	public static function flash()
 	{
-		return ( ! is_null(static::old($key)) and trim((string) static::old($key)) !== '');
+		IoC::container()->core('session')->flash(Input::old_input, static::get());
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Flash the input for the current request to the session.
+	 * Determine if the old input data contains an item.
 	 *
-	 * @return void
+	 * @param  string  $key
+	 * @return bool
 	 */
-	public static function flash()
+	public static function had($key)
 	{
-		IoC::container()->core('session')->flash(Input::old_input, static::get());
+		return ( ! is_null(static::old($key)) and trim((string) static::old($key)) !== '');
 	}
 
 	/**

laravel/redis.php

 <?php namespace Laravel;
 
-define('CRLF', chr(13).chr(10));
-
 class Redis {
 
 	/**

laravel/view.php

@@ -47,9 +47,6 @@ class View {
 	/**
 	 * Get the path to a given view on disk.
 	 *
-	 * The view may be either a "normal" view or a "Blade" view, so we will
-	 * need to check the view directory for either extension.
-	 *
 	 * @param  string  $view
 	 * @return string
 	 */
@@ -57,6 +54,11 @@ class View {
 	{
 		$view = str_replace('.', '/', $view);
 
+		// Application views take priority over system views, so we will return the
+		// application version of the view if both exists. Also, we need to check
+		// for Blade views using the Blade extension. The Blade extension gives
+		// an easy method of determining if the view should be compiled using
+		// the Blade compiler or if the view is plain PHP.
 		foreach (array(EXT, BLADE_EXT) as $extension)
 		{
 			if (file_exists($path = VIEW_PATH.$view.$extension))
@@ -123,7 +125,9 @@ class View {
 	/**
 	 * Find the key for a view by name.
 	 *
-	 * The view "key" is the string that should be passed into the "make" method.
+	 * The view "key" is the string that should be passed into the "make" method and
+	 * should correspond with the location of the view within the application views
+	 * directory, such as "home.index" or "home/index".
 	 *
 	 * @param  string  $name
 	 * @return string
@@ -209,7 +213,7 @@ class View {
 		// since the last compiled version of the view was created or no
 		// compiled view exists. Otherwise, the path will be returned
 		// without re-compiling.
-		if ((file_exists($compiled) and filemtime($this->path) > filemtime($compiled)) or ! file_exists($compiled))
+		if ( ! file_exists($compiled) or (filemtime($this->path) > filemtime($compiled)))
 		{
 			file_put_contents($compiled, Blade::compile($this->path));
 		}