TypiCMS
TypiCMS is a modular multilingual content management system built with Laravel 5.5. Out of the box you can manage pages, events, news, places, sliders, etc.
Table of contents
- Features
- Requirements
- Installation
- Modules
- Facades
- Artisan commands
- Roadmap
- Upgrade instructions
- Change log
- Contributing
- Credits
- Licence
Features
URLs
This kind of URLs are managed by the CMS:
Modules:
- /en/events/slug-in-english
- /fr/evenements/slug-en-francais
Pages:
- /en/parent-pages-slug-en/subpage-slug-en/page-slug-en
- /fr/parent-pages-slug-fr/subpage-slug-fr/page-slug-fr
Requirements
- PHP >= 7.0.0
- OpenSSL PHP Extension
- PDO PHP Extension
- Mbstring PHP Extension
- Tokenizer PHP Extension
- Memcached or Redis
- XML PHP Extension
Installation
First install Node.js
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Create a new project
composer create-project typicms/base mywebsite
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Enter the newly created folder
cd mywebsite
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DB migration and seed, user creation, npm installation and directory rights
php artisan typicms:install
Go to http://mywebsite.local/admin and log in.
Assets
Assets are managed with Laravel Mix. In order to work on assets, you need to install Node.js, then cd to your website folder and run these commands:
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Install npm packages (in directory node_modules)
npm install
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Compile admin and public assets
npm run dev
Configuration
- Set locales in config/translatable.php.
- Set fallback_locale in config/app.php.
- Set main_locale_in_url in config/typicms.php to true or false.
- Cache driver is set to array, you can change it to another taggable cache system such as redis or memcached in your .env file.
Installation of a module
This example is for the News module. After these steps, the module will appear in the sidebar of the back office. If you need to customize it, publish it!
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Install module with Composer
composer require typicms/news
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Add
TypiCMS\Modules\News\Providers\ModuleProvider::class,
to config/app.php, beforeTypiCMS\Modules\Core\Providers\ModuleProvider::class,
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Publish views and migrations
php artisan vendor:publish
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Migrate the database
php artisan migrate
Module scaffolding
This example is for a new module called Cats.
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Create the module with artisan:
php artisan typicms:create cats
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The module is in /Modules/Cats, you can customize it
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Add
TypiCMS\Modules\Cats\Providers\ModuleProvider::class,
to config/app.php, beforeTypiCMS\Modules\Core\Providers\ModuleProvider::class,
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Migrate the database
php artisan migrate
Existing modules
Each module can be published in order to be modified and tracked by git. Here is more info on publishing a module.
Pages
Pages are nestable with drag and drop, on drop, URIs are generated and saved in the database. Each translation of a page has its own route. A page can be linked to a module. A page can have multiple sections.
Menus
Each menu has nestable entries. One entry can be linked to a page or URL.
You can return a HTML formated menu with Menus::render('menuname')
or @menu('menuname')
.
Projects
Projects have categories, projects URLs follows this pattern: /en/projects/category-slug/project-slug
Tags
Tags are linked to projects and use the Selectize plugin. The tags module has many to many polymorphic relations so a tag can be easily linked to any module.
Events
Events have starting and ending dates.
News
News module.
Contacts
Frontend contact form and admin side records management.
Partners
A partner has a logo, website URL, title and body content.
Files
The files module allows you to upload and organize files in folders. Behind the scene, DropzoneJS is used to upload files. Thumbnails are generated on request with Croppa.
Users and roles
User registration can be enabled through the settings panel (/admin/settings). Roles and Permissions are managed with spatie/laravel-permission.
Blocks
Blocks are useful to display custom content in your views.
You can display the content of a block with Blocks::render('blockname')
or @block('blockname')
.
Translations
Translations can be stored in the database through the admin panel (/admin/translations).
You can call DB translation everywhere with Lang::get('db.Key')
, trans('db.Key')
or @lang('db.Key')
.
Sitemap
Route sitemap.xml generates a sitemap file in XML format. To add modules to the site map configure app/config/sitemap.php.
Settings
Change website title, and other options trough the settings panel. Settings are saved in the database
History
created, updated, deleted, online and offline actions are logged in database. 25 latest records are displayed in the back office’s dashboard.
Facades
Each modules has a facade that give you access to the repository, you can call for example News::latest(3)
to get the three latest news.
Check available methods in each module’s repository.
Artisan commands
Commands are located in /vendor/typicms/core/src/Commands
Installation of TypiCMS
php artisan typicms:install
Set cache key prefix in app/config/cache.php
php artisan cache:prefix yourCachePrefix
This command is triggered by typicms:install
Initial migration and seed
php artisan typicms:database
This command is triggered by typicms:install
Publish a module
If you want to modify a module, for example add some fields or a relation, you can not do it easily because each module is in vendor directory. The solution is to remove it from composer and copy it to the /Modules directory. For example, the module Pages will be published by running this command:
php artisan typicms:publish pages
These steps will be executed:
- Publishing of views and migrations for Pages module.
- Copying of everything excepted views and migrations from /vendor/typicms/pages/src to /Modules/Pages.
- Running
composer remove typicms/pages
.
When a module is published, it will be tracked by git and you will be able to make changes in /Modules/Modulename directory without loosing changes when running composer update
.
Create a module
You can easily scaffold a module, for a module named Cats, run this command:
php artisan typicms:create cats
Upgrade instructions
See the Wiki for upgrade instructions
Change log
Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.
Credits
License
TypiCMS is an open-source software licensed under the MIT license.