Laravel Jump Start

Takes out the boredom of boiler plating code and provides sensible defaults to jump start Laravel development:

• Authentication: zizaco/confide
• RBAC Authorization: zizaco/entrust
• Model Self Validation: laravelbook/ardent
• Form Class: anahkiasen/former
• Nested Set Class: baum/baum
• Datatables Integration: bllim/datatables
• Excel Import & Exporting: maatwebsite/excel
• Image Manipulation: intervention/image
• Generators: way/generator
• Asset Pipeline: codesleeve/asset-pipeline
• Debugging & Profiler: itsgoingd/clockwork

##Pre-built Stuff

1. User Management:
   • Login
   • Logout
   • Registration
   • Email confirmation
   • Forgot password
   • User Profile
   • User CRUD for administrator
   • Change password
   • Set password
2. User's Organisation Unit: All users has one organisation unit. Each organisation units may have many children, and so forth using baum/baum nested set.
3. Role based access control (RBAC). A user may have many roles. Each roles may have many permissions.
4. Datatables-based CRUD generator via artisan generate:datatable command.
   • Generated models are self-validating and has fine-grained RBAC system.
   • Generated features handler for both ajax and non-ajax operations, validation and error notifications.
   • Generated Views features form fields and actions. It extends the way/generator package that generates full CRUD inclusive of:
     • List Page using Ajax Datatables (Support large datasets, pagination, searching, etc)
     • Record Details page
     • Create record page complete with form fields and validation
     • Edit record page complete with form fields and validation
     • Delete record
   • Generated Migrations features all table fields complete with timestamps
   • Generated Database Seeds provides a base to fill in:
     • Default values for seeding
     • Basic RBAC entries for the model
5. Uploadable trait. When applied to a model, this enables upload for records of that model.
6. Artisan app:reset command that does:
   1. Dumps autoload
   2. Clears cache
   3. Resets all migrations
   4. Runs database seeder
   5. Cleans uploads directory

##Minimum Requirements

• PHP 5.4+
• PHP Imagick, PHP Mcrypt
• Redis (Cache, Queues)

##Installation

1. Create an empty directory and run composer create-project:

   composer create-project zulfajuniadi/laravel-base .
   

2. Make sure you add your computer's hostname inside the bootstrap/start.php file like so:

   // L26
   $env = $app->detectEnvironment(array(
     'local' => array('homestead', 'ZulfaJuniadis-MacbookPro.local'),
   ));
   

   You can get your computer's hostname by running hostname via the terminal or command prompt

#Usage

##User Management

##CRUD Generator

artisan generate:datatable --fields="Todo:name:string, Done:is_done:boolean:default(0), User:user_id:integer, Project:project_id:integer" project_todos

##Uploadable Trait

The upload able trait enables upload for records of that model. No modifications needed on the database side to enable powerful uploads features.

1. Add UploadableTrait to model:

   // File: models/leaves.php
   
   class Leaves extends Ardent {
     use UploadableTrait;
   

2. To display the uploader form in your blade templates:

   {{ $leave->yieldUploader(2 /*max size in MB*/, 'image/*' /*file type*/, 5 /*max files*/) }}
   // where $leave is an instance of a Model that has the UploadableTrait
   

Other supported filetype arguments: image/*, application/pdf, .psd

1. To display the uploads in your blade templates:

   {{ $leave->yieldUploadsTable() }}
   // where $leave is an instance of a Model that has the UploadableTrait
   

2. To automatically generate thumbnails for your uploaded image add: protected $generate_image_thumbnails = true; into the model.

#Todos

1. Unit tests
2. Reportable trait: Enable model records to be searched & grouped via columns and exported
3. Graphable trait: Enable graphs and charts to be generated from the model records
4. Support multi locale