ButterCMS Laravel Example

This app uses Blade templates but ButterCMS works with any templating engine like Smarty, Twig, or raw PHP.

Important Notice

This project was created as an example use case of ButterCMS in conjunction with laravel, 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

Get Started

Install dependencies:

$ composer install

Start the app:

$ php artisan serve

Features

This example application demonstrates three major features of the ButterCMS API — blogging, dynamic content, and dynamic pages. All of the features are implemented in the following files:

• app/Http/Controllers/BlogController.php: The application controller.
• routes/web.php: The routes for the controller methods.
• resources/*.blade.php: The Laravel/Blade templates used for rendering the content.

Blogging

The blogging features are split into four main areas withing the app — posts, categories, tags, and authors. Each area has a main page and a detail page.

• Posts

  Blog posts are loaded in the listAllPosts() and showPost() methods of the BlogController and rendered to the posts.blade.php and post.blade.php templates.

• Categories

  Post categories are loaded in the listAllCategories() and showCategory() methods and rendered to the categories.blade.php and category.blade.php templates.

• Tags

  Post tags are loaded in the listAllTags() and showTag() methods and rendered to the tags.blade.php and tag.blade.php templates.

• Authors

  Post authors are loaded in the listAllAuthors() and showAuthor() methodsd and rendered to the authors.blade.php and author.blade.php templates.

Dynamic Content

Dynamic content is demonstrated with a Frequenly Asked Question page. FAQ questions and answers, as well as the page headline, are loaded in the showFaq() method of the BlogController and rendered to the faq.blade.php template.

Dynamic Pages

Dynamic pages are demonstrated with mock store location pages. Location page data is loaded by the listAllLocations() and showLocation() method of the BlogController and rendered to the locations.blade.php and location.blade.php templates.

Documentation

For a comprehensive list of examples and API docs, check out our documentation.

Other

View Laravel Full CMS for other examples of using ButterCMS with Laravel.