refactoring bootstrapping.

laravel/bootstrap/core.php

@@ -1,21 +1,87 @@
 <?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);