GuardLMS for Laravel

First-party Laravel inventory connector, following the GuardLMS Moodle/WordPress push model. Reports the running Laravel and PHP versions, PHP extensions, OS family/architecture, and exact installed Composer dependencies. Requires PHP 8.2+ and Laravel 12. This release covers inventory; browser analytics, server error tracking and the browser consent-code onboarding flow are not included.

Install

Install from Packagist:

composer require guardlms/laravel:^0.1

Laravel discovers the service provider and Artisan command automatically.

Register the application's canonical HTTPS URL in GuardLMS and create a website-bound inventory key with inventory:write. Configure your deployment's secret/environment settings:

GUARDLMS_API_KEY=your-website-bound-key
GUARDLMS_SITE_URL=https://your-app.example.com
GUARDLMS_ENABLED=true
GUARDLMS_SCHEDULE_AT=03:17

GUARDLMS_SITE_URL defaults to APP_URL; it must match the registered website, including any subdirectory. Set a separate website/key for each environment. GUARDLMS_API_URL defaults to https://dashboard.guardlms.com; it must use HTTPS. Do not commit the key. Renew it before its GuardLMS expiry and run php artisan config:cache after configuration changes if your app caches config.

php artisan guardlms:push --dry-run
php artisan guardlms:push

Dry run prints inventory without transmitting it. It never includes your API key. A push returns a failing exit code on a collection, connection or API error. Your GuardLMS backend must include Laravel ingestion support from guardlms issue #2041.

Schedule and deploy

Enable Laravel's scheduler with its usual cron entry:

* * * * * cd /path/to/app && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

With GUARDLMS_ENABLED=true, the package registers one daily push at the configured time in the app timezone, with overlap protection. On multiple application servers, run the scheduler on one designated server. The default is disabled. guardlms:push can also run explicitly after deployment regardless of that flag. No inventory collection or outbound HTTP runs during ordinary web requests.

Optional update information

Generate a Composer report separately on the deployment host, using that deployment's installed dependency tree. Include transitive dependencies (do not use --direct):

composer --no-plugins --no-scripts outdated --format=json > storage/app/guardlms-outdated.json.tmp && mv storage/app/guardlms-outdated.json.tmp storage/app/guardlms-outdated.json

Set GUARDLMS_OUTDATED_FILE to the report's absolute path and regenerate it at least daily before the scheduled push. Use an atomic replacement as above. A configured missing, invalid or older-than-24-hours report causes collection to fail, so an unavailable update check cannot silently claim packages are current. Reports must not be publicly served. Only updates matching the deployed package's exact version are transmitted. An absent report leaves update status unknown.

The connector never launches Composer or shell commands itself. Private package update checks therefore use your existing deployment credentials without sending them to GuardLMS. For web server inventory, optionally configure an actual GUARDLMS_WEBSERVER signature such as nginx/1.26.3; the CLI runtime cannot discover the fronting web server and does not guess one.

Inventory contract

The POST goes to /api/externalpush/laravel with the key as a Bearer token. The payload contains siteurl, generatedtime, laravel.version, optional laravel.updates, php, server and dependencies (Composer name, installed version, ecosystem and dev flag). composer.lock must be deployed. Its package names are cross-checked against Composer's runtime inventory; absent dev packages are excluded and installed runtime versions take precedence over stale lock pins. No raw lockfile, repository URLs, source references, environment dump, application configuration, hostname or user data is sent. Up to 2,000 dependencies are supported. GuardLMS uses its existing lockfile advisory matching and displays dependencies in the website technology inventory. Older snapshots cannot replace newer ones.

Configuration and development

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=guardlms-config
composer install
composer test
composer validate --strict

CI tests Laravel 12 on PHP 8.2 and 8.4.

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