fbeen/settingsbundle

This Bundle adds settings out of the database integration on top of the Symfony framework. It lets you design application-settings which can be maintained by the owner or administrator from the website.

FbeenSettingsBundle

This Bundle adds global settings out of the database integration on top of the Symfony framework. It lets you design application-settings which can be maintained by the owner or administrator from the website., _(*1)

Features include:

• Unlimmited setting fields
• Bootstrap ready pages and forms
• Settings can be made and deleted by you developer when you add yourself the ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN in a form
• The value of the setting fields can be changed by the users that have ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR in a form
• The value of the setting fields can be changed by the application
• Five formtypes: text, email, boolean, integer and decimal.
• Form validation dependend on the formtype.

Installation

Using composer:, _(*2)

1) Add "fbeen/settingsbundle": "dev-master" to the require section of your composer.json project file., _(*3)

    "require": {
        ...
        "fbeen/settingsbundle": "dev-master"
    },

2) run composer update:, _(*4)

$ composer update

3) Add the bundle to the app/AppKernel.php:, _(*5)

        $bundles = array(
            ...
            new Fbeen\SettingsBundle\FbeenSettingsBundle(),
        );

4) add routes to app/config/routing.yml, _(*6)

fbeen_settings:
    resource: "@FbeenSettingsBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml"
    prefix:   /admin

5) add routes to app/config/routing_dev.yml, _(*7)

_fbeen_settings:
    resource: "@FbeenSettingsBundle/Resources/config/routing_dev.yml"
    prefix:   /admin

6) Enable Translation in app/config/config.yml, _(*8)

parameters:
    locale: en

framework:
    translator:      { fallbacks: ["%locale%"] }

7) Configure app/config/security.yml so that ROLE_ADMIN and ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN do exist:, _(*9)

security:

    # ...

    role_hierarchy:
        ROLE_ADMIN:       ROLE_USER
        ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN: ROLE_ADMIN

8) Update your database schema, _(*10)

$ bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force

9) Login with an account that has ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN., _(*11)

10) Go to the route .../app_dev.php/admin/settings/developer and start to add settings. The form is very easy to use and does not require further explanations, _(*12)

11) Go to the route .../app_dev.php/admin/settings/edit and see how administrators can change values, _(*13)

Usage

Imagine that you made a setting with the identifier shipping_price and that you want to use the setting in your controller:, _(*14)

$value = $this->get('fbeen_settings.settings_helper')->getSetting('shipping_price');

Or that you want to render the setting in Twig:, _(*15)

{{ setting('shipping_price') }}

Update a setting:, _(*16)

$this->get('fbeen_settings.settings_helper')->updateSetting('shipping_price', $price);

Or maybe you want to use a setting as a page-view counter:, _(*17)

$helper = $this->get('fbeen_settings.settings_helper');
$counter = $helper->getSetting('page_views');
$helper->updateSetting('page_views', ++$counter);