Laravel CMS using Blade Views

This repository is a copy of the simple PHP/Laravel CMS except the CMS views have been converted from vanilla PHP to Blade.

For these instructions I'm going to us MAMP as my development environment. But you could upload this application to a host, deploy using Docker, or the Laravel built in server.

Windows

A few notes For Windows Machines:

1. A Laravel application deploy locall on MAMP seems to have problems running on a Windows computer inside the OneDrive folder. Make sure your project folder is outside of your OneDrive folder.

2. When PHP is downloaded for Windows, the php.ini file will default to having fileinfo, zip, and pdo_mysql disabled. You may need to anable these inside the php.ini file. This file is likely located at c:/PHP/php.ini. Open this file and make the following changes:

   Enable the following three lines:

   ;extension=pdo_mysql
   ;extension=fileinfo
   ;extension=zip
   

   And remove the semi-colon:

   extension=pdo_mysql
   extension=fileinfo
   extension=zip
   

Setup

To set up this CMS follow these steps:

1. Using your Terminal (or Git Bash on Windows), navigate to your working folder:

   $ cd <FOLDER_NAME>
   $ ls
   

   Note: On a Wiindows machine use dir to view the files in the current folder:

   $ dir
   

2. Clone this repo:

   $ git clone https://github.com/codeadamca/laravel-blade-cms.git
   

3. Using the Terminal, use ls on a Mac ot dir on a Windows machine to view the files in the current directory:

   

   You should now see a folder named laravel-blade-cms. Change the present working directory to your new folder:

   $ cd laravel-blade-cms
   

4. Using the Terminal (or Git Bash), run composer update:

   $ composer update
   

5. We need to setup the database connection.

   Using MAMP and phpMyAdmin, create a new databse.

   Make a copy the .env.sample file and name it .env. Update the new .env file with your database credentials:

   DB_CONNECTION=mysql
   DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
   DB_PORT=3306
   DB_DATABASE=<DATABASE_NAME>
   DB_USERNAME=root
   DB_PASSWORD=root

   On a Mac I also need to define the socket. Under DB_PASSWORD I'm going to add:

   DB_SOCKET=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock

   Your socket setting may be different. When your MAMP server is up and running, open the MAMP start page (http://:8888/MAMP), go to the MySQL tab, and your socket location will be listed:

   

   The database setup included with this applications includes migrations and seeding. Run the following command to create the required tables and seed them with testing data:

   $ php artisan migrate:refresh --seed
   

6. Update your .env file to use the public file system:

   FILESYSTEM_DRIVER=public

   And then run this command using the Terminal:

   $ php artisan storage:link
   

7. Opne up your MAMP preferences and set the document root to the public folder in your laravel-blade-cms folder:

   

   Restart MAMP.

8. Using a Terminal, create an app key:

   php artisan key:generate
   

Test

To view the public front end go to http://localhost:8888/ on a Mac or http://localhost/ on a Windows machine. This may be different based on your MAMP configuration.

To log in to the admin, use the URL http://localhost:8888/console/login on a Mac or http://localhost/console/login on a Windows machine. This may be different based on your MAMP configuration.

You will need to look up the email addresses in the user table and the default password is "password".

Full tutorial URL:
https://codeadam.ca/learning/php-cms-laravel.html

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Repo Resources

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