cms

Minimalist CMS for Laravel

Features

• Lightweight
• Minimal footprint (just one additional table in database)
• Manage users
• Profile page
• Manage pages ("sections") hierarchy (view as table or as nested list)
• Public and protected pages (and attached files)
• Publication can be planned for future
• Many articles per page
• Many uploads per article
• Localizable (english and russian translations icluded)
• Uses standard Laravel authentication
• Ready to use WYSIWYG CKEditor
• Cache pages
• Image thumbnails (also cached)

Developer info

• Uses two database tables: users extended from standard Laravel authentication and sections for pages, articles, files.
• Database migrations included.
• Cms facade and cms() helper function.
• Repository of sections SectionRepository.
• Policies for managing users and sections (UserPolicy, SectionPolicy).
• Middleware: CheckUserRole and CachePages.
• Thumbnails generated and cached with intervention/image.
• Views marked up with bootstrap classes.

Install

In short: configure database then run:

$ php artisan make:auth
$ composer require vvvkor/laravel-cms-base
$ php artisan migrate
$ php artisan make:cms

Configure database (if you have not alredy)

Set parameters in .env or config/database.php files of your project.
Depending on DBMS version (MySQL < 5.7.7.), you may need to fix string length .

Enable authorization (if you have not alredy)

$ php artisan make:auth

Require CMS package

$ composer require vvvkor/laravel-cms-base

Add service provider (if auto-discovery is disabled)

In config/app.php add to providers section

vvvkor\cms\cmsServiceProvider::class,

and to aliases section

'Cms' => vvvkor\cms\Facades\Cms::class,

Migrate tables with default data

$ php artisan migrate

Add CMS routes

To add routes to routes/web.php run

$ php artisan make:cms

or add manually to routes/web.php

Cms::routes();

Publish views, translations, config (optional)

Copy stuff to your app if you want to modify it.
Views are marked with Bootstrap classes.

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider=vvvkor\laravel-cms-base\CmsServiceProvider

Use WYSIWYG CKEditor (optional)

You can use CKEditor for visual formatting of texts.

$ composer require unisharp/laravel-ckeditor

In config/app.php add to providers section

Unisharp\Ckeditor\ServiceProvider::class,

Publish assets

$ php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ckeditor

Usage

• Using browser go to home page of your project.
• Log in as administrator with e-mail [email protected] and password admin.
• Or as privileged reader with e-mail [email protected] and password reader.
• Go to home page again.
• For administrator, on top of page there are links to manage Sections and Users.
• For reader, there is a link to a protected page in top menu.