Laravel Simple Articles

Description

Laravel Simple Articles allows you to easily install an extension for your Laravel App for managing articles. This extension is easily configurable for your needs.

For editing articles the extension uses Summernote bootstrap extension:

summernote.org

Installation

1. Download the extension via composer:

composer require vanguardkras/laravel-simple-articles

2. In order to make pictures available, create laravel symbolic link to storage

in console:

php artisan storage:link

3. Add database table:

php artisan migrate

Usage

Articles are now available on: your.domain/articles

Articles admin panel is available on: your.domain/admin_articles

Configuration

You obviously would like to configure views and some extensions feature. In this sections, will be explained how to do this.

Edit views and translations

Views

To edit view files, publish the extension views:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=articles_views

Now you can edit them in resources/views/vendor/articles

Articles per page

To edit the number of articles per page publish the extension config:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=articles_config

And modify per_page parameter.

Translations

To edit translation files, publish the extension translations:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=articles_translations

Now you can edit them in resources/lang/vendor/articles

User policy

In default behaviour any user is able to manage article. Of course, it is not appropriate for any production environment.

To change this behaviour you need to create in any class a static method that accept one optional parameter of an App\User instance and returns a boolean value like so:

    /**
     * Method checks user's right to manage articles.
     *
     * @param User|null $user
     * @return bool
     */
    public static function checkUser(?User $user)
    {
        return $user ? $user->id === 1 : false;
    }

In this method describe your logic for allowed users.

Then publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=articles_config

And edit 'check_method' parameter in config/articles.php

'check_method' => '\Vanguardkras\LaravelSimpleArticles\Http\Controllers\ArticleController@checkUser',

Before @ should be your class full name, and after @, its static method.

Note for russian users

If you want to make summernote html editor interface work in Russian, publish its JS translation:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=articles_public