1. Add FractalService with static item() and collection() helpers
replacing 22 call sites that repeated the 4-line Fractal Manager
+ ArraySerializer boilerplate.
2. Add AccountInterstitial::createFromStatus() factory method
consolidating 4 identical 15-line blocks that create interstitials
with status metadata.
3. Add NotificationService::createNotification() to handle the
repeated pattern of creating, caching, and registering a
notification in the recipient's feed.
4. Add NotificationService::firstOrCreateNotification() for
idempotent notifications (share/boost, mention) that should
only notify once per actor+action+item combination.
Move all Eloquent models from the app/ root directory to app/Models/
for consistency with modern Laravel conventions. The project already had
54 models in App\Models; this migrates the remaining 52 legacy models.
Changes:
- Move 52 model files from app/ to app/Models/
- Update namespace declarations in each model
- Update all ~1000 import references across the codebase
- Add Relation::morphMap() in AppServiceProvider for backward
compatibility with existing polymorphic database records
- Add missing HasSnowflakePrimary imports for models that relied
on same-namespace resolution
Convert all 273 short facade alias imports (e.g. 'use Cache;') to their
fully-qualified class names (e.g. 'use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;')
across 193 files.
This resolves 643 PHPStan 'class.notFound' errors caused by the static
analyzer being unable to resolve global aliases, and aligns with modern
Laravel conventions. It also unblocks removing the aliases array from
config/app.php in a future change.
All 107 tests pass.
Replace all deprecated helper function calls:
- str_slug() → Str::slug()
- starts_with() → str_starts_with()
- ends_with() → str_ends_with()
- array_first() → Arr::first()
- array_last() → Arr::last()
- array_flatten() → Arr::flatten()
Remove laravel/helpers package from composer.json as it is no longer
needed and will not be maintained for Laravel 13.
PHP 5.5.9 adds the new static `class` property which provides the fully qualified class name. This is preferred over using strings for class names since the `class` property references are checked by PHP.
Smartphone photos stored in landscape orientation with an EXIF rotation
tag were being saved to S3 in the wrong orientation. Image.php read the
raw pixel dimensions without first applying the EXIF tag, so portrait
photos (e.g. 4032×3024 with Orientation=6) were classified and resized
as landscape (1920×1080).
Calling orient() immediately after read() physically rotates the image
to match its EXIF orientation tag before any dimension checks or
scaling. This ensures portrait photos remain portrait after processing.
Intervention Image v3 reference:
https://image.intervention.io/v3/modifying/orientation