This package is a theme management package for Laravel with a set of tools to help you easily and quickly build a theme management system for your laravel based project. The goal of this package is to remain as flexible as possible and provide a way to use it internally.

Supports

| Version | Laravel Version | PHP Version | |---- |----|----| | 1.0 | 5.5 | 7.1, 7.2 |

This package supports Blade, PHP and Twig template engines.

Features

This package provides tools for the following:

• Change themes on runtime.
• Get theme meta infomations.
• Support fallback templates.
• Preview a theme using URL query parameter.
• Extend the theme functionalities.

##Installation

To get started with this package, add the following lines to your composer.json file and run composer update.

"require": {
	"roland/laravel-theme-manager": "~1.0"
}

Or, Run composer require from your terminal to install the package via the Composer package manager:

composer require roland/laravel-theme-manager

Service Provider & Facade

If you disabled the laravel's automatic package discovery feature these will help you.

// Service Provider
Roland\Theme\ThemeServiceProvider::class,

// Facade
'Theme' => Roland\Theme\Facades\Theme::class,

Publish Configuration

Much of the package comes preconfigured, so that you can start building your API right away after you installed. You can either use .env file or config/themes.php to configure most of the package.

You also can publish the configuration file with the following Artisan command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Roland\Theme\ThemeServiceProvider"

Enable or disable the package

You can set the value to true or false to enable or disable the package.

Default theme provider

Here you may specify which of the theme provider connections below you wish to use as your default provider.

Available drivers: "file"

Default theme

Here you may specify the default theme.

Themes path

Here you may specify a path for themes.

##Basic Usage

Create a theme

To create a theme, first, add a themes folder to the resources folder of your app.

Inside the themes folder, any folder you create with a theme.json the file represents a theme.

The folder structure will look like this:

resources
└── themes
    ├── [Theme folder]
    |   └── theme.json
    |   └── welcome.blade.php
    |
    └── [Another theme folder]
        └── theme.json
        └── welcome.blade.php

Theme information file (theme.json)

This package only recognize a folder as a theme when a file called theme.json exists.

This is the basic structure of the theme information file. You can add any number of key, value pairs to the file and retrieve later.

{
	"theme_title": "Default theme",
	"theme_description": "Default theme for the theme package",
	"theme_uri": "https://domain.com",
	"theme_version": "1.0.0",
	"theme_license": "The MIT License (MIT)",
	"theme_tags": "default, simple",
	"theme_type": "web",
	"author_name": "Jon Deep",
	"author_email": "[email protected]",
	"author_uri": "https://domain.com"
}

Basic methods

To simply display a view (welcome) using the current theme. Otherwise fallback (index).

return Theme::view(['welcome', 'index']);

To set the current theme on runtime.

return Theme::use('mytheme')->view(['welcome']);

To set the current theme and update the default config theme.

Theme::set('mytheme');

Add theme parameter to preview a theme on runtime.

https://localhost/?theme=mytheme

You also can change the theme provider at runtime.

return Theme::driver('file')->view(['welcome']);

To check whether a theme exists or not.

Theme::exists('mytheme');

To check all themes.

Theme::all();

Ps: it will return a json with all the installed themes

Return theme's information as json.

// Return default theme's info
return Theme::info();

// Return provided theme's info
return Theme::info('mytheme');

Pass data to views.

// with() method
return Theme::with(['name' => 'Victoria'])->view(['welcome']);

// Alternative way
return Theme::view(['welcome'], ['name' => 'Victoria']);

##Advanced We allow you extend or add more theme providers using extend function on runtime without a hassle.

	Theme::extend('riak', function($app)
	{
		return 'Riak theme driver';
	});

	// Chnage the theme driver from route
	return Theme::driver('riak');

Configure Middleware

• Publish the package: php artisan vendor:publish
• On Http/kernel.php add to protected 'theme' => \App\Http\Middleware\CheckTheme::class,
• Use middleware on the routes

Route example: Route::get('/', ['uses' => 'TestController@home'])->middleware('theme:ThemeName');

ps. using the theme will allow you to use the deafult Laravel view() with the currect theme :)

License

This package is licensed under the The MIT License (MIT).