---
title: "Installation — Opening Hours for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Install via Composer, publish and run the six migrations, and optionally publish the config and the en/sk translations."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/opening-hours-for-laravel/installation
language: en
---

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# Installation

Require the package, then publish and run the migrations — six tables, all prefixed opening\_hours\_. The service provider is auto-discovered, so there is nothing to register:

```bash
composer require roundly-consulting/opening-hours-for-laravel

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="opening-hours-migrations"
php artisan migrate
```

The config file and the translations (en, sk) are optional — publish them only to override defaults or wording:

```bash
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="opening-hours-config"
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="opening-hours-translations"
```

## Publish tags

| Tag | Publishes |
| --- | --- |
| `opening-hours-migrations` | Six timestamped migrations — publish-only; nothing is auto-loaded. |
| `opening-hours-config` | config/opening-hours.php |
| `opening-hours-translations` | lang/vendor/opening-hours/{en,sk} |

## UUID and ULID owners

If the models that own opening hours use UUID or ULID keys, set OPENING\_HOURS\_KEY\_TYPE before running the migrations — it decides the owner\_id column type in opening\_hours\_calendars and opening\_hours\_intervals. Matching ignores case and padding; any other value throws the toolkit’s InvalidConfigurationException when the migrations run:

```bash
# bigint (default), uuid or ulid — set before running the migrations
OPENING_HOURS_KEY_TYPE=uuid
```

## Recommended scheduling

Two maintenance commands are meant to run daily — pruning (once prune.\* is configured) and interval materialization (only with materialize.enabled):

```php
// routes/console.php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schedule;

Schedule::command('opening-hours:prune')->daily();         // with prune.* configured
Schedule::command('opening-hours:materialize')->daily();   // only with materialize.enabled
```

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