Pages Example

Example implementation of https://github.com/unstoppablecarl/laravel-content-pages

Installation

Add the package via composer by adding the following to composer.json and running composer update.

{
    "require": {
        "unstoppablecarl/laravel-content-pages": "dev-master",
        "unstoppablecarl/laravel-content-pages-example": "dev-master"
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/unstoppablecarl/laravel-content-pages"
        },
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/unstoppablecarl/laravel-content-pages-example"
        }
    ],
    "minimum-stability": "dev"
}

Add example installer service provider

Within config/app.php add the following line to the providers array.

UnstoppableCarl\PagesExample\PagesExampleInstallerServiceProvider::class

Publish example files

Example files will be coppied to /app, /database, and /resources

php artisan vendor:publish

php artisan vendor:publish --provider "UnstoppableCarl\PagesExample\PagesExampleInstallerServiceProvider"

By default vendor:publish will not overwrite existing files if you want it to you can add --force to overwrite existing.

Setup DB

Setup create migrations table (If not done already).

php artisan migrate:install

Migrate and seed example data.

php artisan migrate

php artisan db:seed --class=PagesSeeder

Setup service providers

Within config/app.php add the following line to the providers array.

// laravel-content-pages service provider
UnstoppableCarl\Pages\PagesServiceProvider::class,

// example app service provider installed by vendor:publish
App\Providers\PagesServiceProvider::class

Now that all example files have been installed, within config/app.php remove the following line from the providers array.

UnstoppableCarl\PagesExample\PagesExampleInstallerServiceProvider::class

Enable pages package

In config/pages.php

    // set to true
    'enabled' => env('PAGES_ENABLED', true),

Result

You should now be able to see a list of routes by doing:

php artisan route:list

All of the routes listed should be publicly accessible. Look at the pages database table to see how the routes are set.

Typical use case:

You need a content management solution where a user can manage page records, the page records have a path that is the url to that page and metadata / content. Simple route model binding would almost work, but you would need to match all routes and have a controller that tried to match to pages and handle any 404 stuff. Not ideal.

In addition to basic content pages you need to have ‘types’ of pages that behave differently: a contact form, a list/single article view etc. Setting the page type changes the behavior of that page’s admin controller to accommodate variant behavior / data. It also may bind ‘sub’ routes of that page such as the list view: ‘/‘ and ‘/{article-slug}` or whatever is needed for that page. The page’s base path must be able to be changed without code changes and without breaking anything. This could also include variant templates for different page types but that is just a detail. It could include variant ANYTHING per page type really.