Frontend CMS

A content management system that allows you to output editable content to the page.

Install

$ composer require uniben/cms

Examples

$model->field // Field value

$model->field->title('Default value', 'h2', ['class' => 'example', 'rand']) // Output <h2 class="example ..." rand data-edtable="...">Field value</h2>

$model->field->image() // Output <video class="..." data-edtable="..."><source src="..." type="..."><source ...></h2>

Restricting editable capabilities

Allow everyone to edit a particular model:

class X extends Editable {
    public function canEdit()
    {
        return true;
    }
}

Only allow logged in users to edit:

class X extends Editable {
    public function canEdit()
    {
        return auth()->user(); // Could even check their permissions here?
    }
}

Contributing

For an easy install of a development environment you can use docker to run using docker. The docker file will install laravel and the package for you along with a temporary database.

Install

$ make install

Start

docker-compose up -d

Visit localhost:8080

How it works

When an editable field is rendered it is given an id which maps to the model type, model id and updated field. When an update/save is made editable fields which belong to the same model are collated in to an array and sent to an update controller.

Todo

• Switch edtable types render methods over to views rather than generatng inside of a method.
• Handle redirect responses from edtables when a new product is created.
• Make edtables on the frontend reactive using VueX
• Use UniBen/laravel-graphqlable for an easy to use documented API.
• Get wwyswig and image upload fields working using standard libraries.
• Improve editable type caching and queries in admin
• Make editable fields revisionable
• Improve code qualiity
• Aim for 100% code coverage
• Make dynamic registration of editable types easy via a service provider
• Reduce JS bundle size as much as possible
• Remove server side rendered editables and use vue components with ssr instead to simplify process.