#CorvoRoutes Simple way to organize Laravel proyects.

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#How to use

###Instalation Add "corvo/router" in your composer.json requires and run composer update.

require {
    ...,
    "corvo/router": "dev-master"
}

Note: if you use namespaces in your sections add app/web with psr-0 or psr-4 on composer.json

autoload {
    "classmap": [
      ...
    ],
    "psr-0": {
      "": "app/web"
    }
}

Add Corvo\Routes\Providers\CorvoRoutesServiceProvider in your app/config/app.php file

'providers' => array(
  'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ArtisanServiceProvider',
  ...
  'Corvo\Routes\Providers\CorvoRoutesServiceProvider'
)

Now, the easy way to create sections is using artsian, run the following command in your root application folder:

php artsian corvo:section [section_name]

That create a section called [section_name]. For example, lets to create a section for a blog

php artsian corvo:section Blog

And an admin section

php artsian corvo:section Admin

See in your proyect/app folder, and open the new folder named web, this contain all sections, and now we have the Blog and Admin sections.

You must have something like that:

|--app
|--|--web
|--|--|--Blog
|--|--|--|--Config
|--|--|--|--Controllers
|--|--|--|--Library
|--|--|--|--Models
|--|--|--|--routes.php
|--|--|--|--Views
|--|--|--Admin
|--|--|--|--Config
|--|--|--|--Controllers
|--|--|--|--Library
|--|--|--|--Models
|--|--|--|--routes.php
|--|--|--|--Views

###Namespaces Now what we have the sections, go to create the views:

/* app/web/Blog/Views/index.blade.php */

<h1>My Awsome Blog!</h1>

@foreach($posts as $post)
  <div>
    <h2>{{ $post->title }}</h2>
    <p>{{ $post->content }}</p>
  </div>
@endforeach

For access to this view, we can use the namespaces called in the same way as section.

Add in the Blog/routes.php file:

/* app/web/Blog/routes.php */

Route::group(array('prefix' => 'blog'), function ()
{
  Route::get('/', function()
  {
    $posts = Blog\Models\Post::all();
    return View::make('Blog::index', ['posts' => $posts]);
  });
});

The Blog namespace is already added, and we can use that for do refence to all Blogs views.

The same way in our Admin views, and all sections:

/* app/web/Admin/routes.php */

Route::group(array('prefix' => 'admin'), function ()
{
  Route::get('/users', function()
  {
    $users = Admin\Models\Users::all();
    return View::make('Admin::users', ['users' => $users]);
  });
});

To access to config files is the same way:

/* app/web/Blog/Config/general.php */

return array(
  'posts_per_page' => 10
);

/* app/web/Blog/Controllers/HomeController.php */

public function getIndex()
{
  $postsPerPage = Config::('Blog::general.posts_per_page');
  $posts = Blog\Models\Post::take($postsPerPage)->get();
  return View::make('Blog::index', ['posts' => $posts]);
}

#Runing To run this, we need load CorvoRoutes class. To do that, in the proyect/app/routes.php file add the following line:

/* app/routes.php */

CorvoRoutes::load();

And that's all.

#Advanced usage:

###Configuration You can change the some features of CorvoRoutes like the path of sections, routes filename or the name of view folder.

In your proyect/app/config folder create a new config file called corvoroutes

|--app
|--|--config
|--|--|--corvoroutes.php

In this file, you can change one or more features.

Options:

Name	Description
base_path	Change the base path of your sections location
alternative_paths	Array which contain the absolute path to other sections location
routes_filename	Name of your routes file
views_folder	Name of your views folder

For example, if you wanna change the views folder /Views for /Templates, only add this option:

/* proyect/app/config/corvoroutes.php */

return array(
    'views_folder' => 'Templates'
);

And change the base_path, you don't like proyect/app/web and think is better proyect/content:

/* proyect/app/config/corvoroutes.php */

return array(
    'base_path'    => base_path().'/content',
    'views_folder' => 'Templates'
);

Note: if you change base_path and created previous sections in proyect/app/web you must move to the new base_path or add with alternative_paths

###Alternative paths For add a section in other location like proyect/content/Foro/ and proyect/Users/ you have two was:

1. Using config file:

return array(
    'alternative_paths' => array(
        base_path().'/content/Foro',
        base_path().'/Users'
    )
);

2. Using alternativePaths() method

/* proyect/app/routes.php */

CorvoRoutes::alternativePaths(array(
    base_path().'/content/Foro',
    base_path().'/Users'
))
->load();

And each "alternative path" work like proyect/app/web sections.