EasyBlog

A drop-in blog bundle for Symfony with EasyAdmin support. Provides a complete blog system with posts, categories, FAQs, and SEO features.

Features

• Posts - Create and manage blog posts with rich content
• Categories - Hierarchical category system with parent/child relationships
• FAQs - Associate FAQs with posts
• SEO - Built-in SEO fields (title, description, keywords)
• EasyAdmin Integration - Full CRUD controllers for EasyAdmin dashboard
• ** Twig Templates** - Responsive default templates

Requirements

• PHP 8.3+
• Symfony 7.0+ or 8.0+
• Doctrine ORM 3.0+
• EasyAdminBundle 5.0+

Installation

1. Add the bundle via Composer

composer require bytes-commerce/easy-blog

2. Register the bundle

In config/bundles.php:

return [
    // ...
    BytesCommerce\EasyBlog\EasyBlogBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

3. Configure the bundle

Create config/packages/easy_blog.yaml:

easy_blog:
  user_entity: 'App\Entity\User'  # Your User entity class

4. Make your User entity implement AuthorAwareInterface

<?php

namespace App\Entity;

use BytesCommerce\EasyBlog\Entity\AuthorAwareInterface;
use BytesCommerce\EasyBlog\Entity\Post;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection;

class User implements AuthorAwareInterface
{
    // ... existing User code

    /**
     * @return Collection<int, Post>
     */
    public function getPosts(): Collection
    {
        return $this->posts;
    }

    public function addPost(Post $post): self
    {
        if (!$this->posts->contains($post)) {
            $this->posts->add($post);
        }
        return $this;
    }

    public function removePost(Post $post): self
    {
        $this->posts->removeElement($post);
        return $this;
    }
}

5. Update your User entity mapping

Add the ManyToMany relationship to your User entity:

#[ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity: Post::class, mappedBy: 'users')]
private Collection $posts;

6. Clear cache

php bin/console cache:clear

7. Add menu items to EasyAdmin Dashboard

In your Dashboard controller:

yield MenuItem::section('Blog', 'fa fa-newspaper');
yield MenuItem::linkToCrud('Categories', 'fa fa-caret-right', Category::class);
yield MenuItem::linkToCrud('Posts', 'fa fa-caret-right', Post::class);

Configuration Reference

easy_blog:
  # Required: The host app's User entity that posts reference
  user_entity: 'App\Entity\User'

  # Optional: Vich uploader settings for blog images
  vich_uploader:
    image_path: '/uploads/'
    upload_dir: 'public/uploads/'

  # Optional: Cache configuration
  cache:
    enabled: true
    ttl: 7200  # seconds

  # Optional: Pagination settings
  pagination:
    page_size: 5

Available Routes

Route	Description
blog.category.all-posts	List all posts (/beitraege/{page})
blog.category	List posts by category (/beitraege/{slug}/{page})
blog.post	View single post (/beitraege/beitrag/{slug})
blog.ajax.posts	AJAX endpoint for post slider

Template Customization

Override templates by placing them in your project's templates/bundles/EasyBlog/ directory:

templates/
└── bundles/
    └── EasyBlog/
        └── blog/
            ├── base.html.twig
            ├── category/
            │   ├── list.html.twig
            │   └── pagination.html.twig
            └── post/
                ├── card.html.twig
                ├── view.html.twig
                └── ...

Database Schema

The bundle provides Doctrine XML mapping files in Resources/config/doctrine/. These are automatically loaded when the bundle is registered.

Table Names

All tables use the prefix bytes_commerce_blog_:

Entity	Table
Post	bytes_commerce_blog_post
Category	bytes_commerce_blog_category
Faq	bytes_commerce_blog_faq
Post ↔ Category	bytes_commerce_blog_post_category
Post ↔ User	Your host app's user table

Generate the schema using:

php bin/console doctrine:schema:create

Testing

# Run unit tests
./vendor/bin/phpunit --testsuite=Unit

# Run integration tests
./vendor/bin/phpunit --testsuite=Integration

# Run all tests
./vendor/bin/phpunit

Static Analysis

./vendor/bin/phpstan analyse src/ --level=6

Architecture

The bundle follows Ports & Adapters (Hexagonal) architecture:

BytesCommerce\EasyBlog\
├── Controller\          # Symfony controllers
├── Entity\             # Domain entities
├── Enum\               # Value enums
├── Repository\         # Data access interfaces & implementations
└── DependencyInjection\ # Symfony bundle wiring

License

MIT