Acorn

Abstract

1. Introduction

Acorn brings Laravel's ecosystem to WordPress. Build your next WordPress project with the tools and packages you already know and love.

Acorn gives you access to most Laravel components out of the box, including routing, caching, events, validation, and more. There's also a growing ecosystem of community packages built specifically for Acorn that add features like WooCommerce support and ACF integration.

Roots is an independent open source org, supported only by developers like you. Your sponsorship funds WP Packages and the entire Roots ecosystem, and keeps them independent. Support us by purchasing Radicle or sponsoring us on GitHub — sponsors get access to our private Discord.

2. Objective

Integrate Laravel functionality into WordPress projects

This project demonstrates how PHP, Laravel can be applied to a real-world Full Stack Web Development problem.

4. Technology Stack

• illuminate/auth
• illuminate/bus
• illuminate/cache
• illuminate/collections
• illuminate/conditionable
• illuminate/config
• illuminate/console
• illuminate/container

5. System Requirements

General requirements for this technology stack — check the README for exact versions.

• PHP 7.4+ with a web server (XAMPP / WAMP / LAMP)
• MySQL / MariaDB
• phpMyAdmin (optional)
• Git (to clone the repository)

6. Installation & Setup

git clone https://github.com/roots/acorn.git
cd acorn

Full setup instructions are in the project README.

7. Future Enhancements

Suggested extensions you can add to make this your own project.

• Add role-based access control
• Deploy on a VPS or cPanel hosting with a custom domain
• Add automated tests and a CI pipeline

8. Viva / Review Questions

Common questions examiners ask for projects in this domain.

1. Explain the frontend, backend and database layers of this application.
2. How is user authentication and authorisation implemented?
3. Describe the main database tables / collections and their relationships.
4. Which REST APIs or routes are exposed and what do they return?
5. How would you deploy this application to production?

9. Source Code & License

This project is developed by roots and published on GitHub under the MIT License. Please follow the license terms and credit the original author when you use or modify this code.