Butter Blog Tutorial

Code for Laravel + ButterCMS blog tutorial.

Important Notice

This project was created as an example use case of ButterCMS in conjunction with a blog article, How to Build a Blog with Laravel (& Send Slack Notifications), and will not be actively maintained.

If you’re interested in exploring the best, most up-to-date way to integrate Butter into PhP frameworks like Laravel, you can check out the following resources:

Starter Projects

The following turn-key starters are fully integrated with dynamic sample content from your ButterCMS account, including main menu, pages, blog posts, categories, and tags, all with a beautiful, custom theme with already-implemented search functionality. All of the included sample content is automatically created in your account dashboard when you sign up for a free trial of ButterCMS.

• Laravel Starter
• Angular Starter
• React Starter
• Vue.js Starter
• Or see a list of all our currently-maintained starters. (Over a dozen and counting!)

Other Resources

• Check out the official ButterCMS Docs
• Check out the official ButterCMS API docs

Installation

After cloning this repository, run the following command to install dependencies:

composer install

Configurations

Rename .env.example to .env:

mv .env.example .env

Then, add your ButterCMS API token and Slack Webhook URL:

BUTTER_API_KEY=
SLACK_WEBHOOK=

You also need to add an absolute path to your SQLite database:

DB_DATABASE=/path/to/butter-blog/database/database.sqlite

You can easily create an SQLite database with the following command:

touch database/database.sqlite

You then need to migrate the database tables:

php artisan migrate

And seed to add a fake user:

php artisan db:seed

Run Server

Finally, you can run the server with the following command:

php artisan serve

This will by default run the server at localhost:8000.