Firevel – Firestore

A lightweight wrapper around the official Cloud Firestore PHP client for Laravel and Firevel, compatible with Google App Engine Standard.

Installation

1. Create a Firestore project
   If you don’t have one yet, follow the Cloud Firestore quick start.

2. Install the package

   composer require firevel/firestore

3. Enable gRPC extensions
   If you’re deploying to Google App Engine Standard, create a php.ini next to your app.yaml with:

   extension=grpc.so
   extension=protobuf.so

   Using the library outside of App Engine? See the gRPC installation guide and Installing the protobuf runtime library.

Tinker / PsySH note

If the pcntl extension is enabled, set usePcntl to false in your .psysh.php to avoid gRPC calls hanging in Tinker:

<?php

return [
    'usePcntl' => false,
];

Usage

Use the Firestore facade to access the client:

use Firevel\Firestore\Facades\Firestore;

$data = [
    'name'    => 'Los Angeles',
    'state'   => 'CA',
    'country' => 'USA',
];

Firestore::collection('cities')->document('LA')->set($data);

Authentication

On Google App Engine Standard, Firestore works without additional credentials.
For local development or other environments, follow the official Authentication guide (e.g., set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS).

Resources

• Official Firestore docs: https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/
• In-depth PHP samples: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/php-docs-samples/tree/master/firestore