Yii2 News

News module for Yii2

Requirements

PHP 5.6 or higher
Yii2 v.2.0.20 and newest
Yii2 Base module (required)
Yii2 Editor module (required)
Yii2 SelectInput widget

Installation

To install the module, run the following command in the console:

$ composer require "wdmg/yii2-news"

After configure db connection, run the following command in the console:

$ php yii news/init

And select the operation you want to perform:

Apply all module migrations
Revert all module migrations

Migrations

In any case, you can execute the migration and create the initial data, run the following command in the console:

$ php yii migrate --migrationPath=@vendor/wdmg/yii2-news/migrations

Configure

To add a module to the project, add the following data in your configuration file:

'modules' => [
    ...
    'news' => [
        'class' => 'wdmg\news\Module',
        'routePrefix' => 'admin',
        'newsRoute'  => '/news', // route for frontend (string or array), use "/" - for root
        'newsLayout' => '@app/views/layouts/main', // the default layout to render news
        'newsImagePath' => '/uploads/news' // the default path to save news thumbnails in @webroot
    ],
    ...
],

Routing

Use the Module::dashboardNavItems() method of the module to generate a navigation items list for NavBar, like this:

<?php
    echo Nav::widget([
    'options' => ['class' => 'navbar-nav navbar-right'],
        'label' => 'Modules',
        'items' => [
            Yii::$app->getModule('news')->dashboardNavItems(),
            ...
        ]
    ]);
?>

Status and version [in progress development]

v.1.0.2 - Added news image and thumbnails, draft view from backend
v.1.0.1 - Added module views and updating controllers
v.1.0.0 - Added models, controllers and base views