Laravel Web Project (Blog)

Table of Contents

• Laravel Web Project (Blog)
  • Table of Contents
  • About
  • UI
    • Header
    • All Posts
    • Single Post
    • Dashboard
  • Key Parts
  • Getting Started - routes/web.php

About

A simple site to post blogs or articles done as a web project (PHP development) . It is powered by the Laravel Framework

UI

Header

All Posts

Single Post

Dashboard

Key Parts

• Login / register
• Role Specific actions
  • User management (for admin)
  • Post management (for writers)
  • Discovering Posts (for readers and guests)
  • Following writers (for readers)
• Interesting Code Stuff
  • route protection (using middleware)
  • breadcrumbs (javascript on the front end)
  • populating the database using : model factory , db:seed and faker

Getting Started

To test this on your machine do the following

• add a mySQL database called lapp
• in the project run
  

	php artisan migrate
	php artisan db:seed
    php artisan storage:link
	php artisan serve

• navigate to localhost:8000
• 😁

routes/web.php

Route::get('/', 'PagesController@Index');
//posts
Route::resource('posts', 'PostsController');
Route::post('posts/tags', 'PostsController@indexTag');
//users
Route::post('/users/follow', 'UsersController@follow');
Route::resource('users', 'UsersController');
Route::get('/users/{user}/admin', 'UsersController@toggleAdmin');
//auth
Auth::routes();
//dashboard
Route::get('/dashboard', 'DashboardController@index')->name('Dashboard');
//contact
Route::get('/contact', 'PagesController@contactShow');
Route::post('/contact', 'PagesController@contact');