jozwikp/flexcms

Flexible CMS

Flexcms

Flexcms is simple and flexible yet powerful Laravel functionality.! It lets you build a page structure with lists and pages., _(*1)

Every page can exist within the list or separately. You can build a blog with categories or a lonely contact page., _(*2)

Full feature list

• Use of standard authentication and user account but separated logic of admin and author - no changes to your User model
• Use of routes fallback gives you the unlimited paths flexibility
• Blade templates for lists and pages
• Pages as part of lists or standalone Pages
• Full SEO support with meta title end description
• Laravel cache for Pages and Lists - 0 database queries for page or list display
• Simple but powerful Admin and Author panel
• Easy to understand, publish and customization

Flexible paths

The most important thing is that you can have a page or a list with whatever url you like for example: - /my-page - /blog/super-category/super-post-with-extra-content - /contact - /about/company - /your/super/path/to/content, _(*3)

Separated

Flexcms doesn't change any of the existing Laravel app. You don't even have to add anything to User model., _(*4)

Styleable

Every List or Page can have its own blade template., _(*5)

Cached

Flexcms is ultra fast. Every Page and List is fully cached. No database request., _(*6)

Installation

Laravel 5.6 with standard Authentication, _(*7)

composer require jozwikp/flexcms

Add basic authentication, _(*8)

php artisan make:auth

Add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php, _(*9)

Jozwikp\Flexcms\FlexcmsServiceProvider::class,

Add this line to the end of your routes/web.php, _(*10)

Route::any('{path}', '\Jozwikp\Flexcms\controllers\PathController@resolve')->where('path', '(.*)');

Run migrations, _(*11)

php artisan migrate

Add admin user with:, _(*12)

$ php artisan flexcms:makeadmin

Flexcms use images to lists and pages so you should create a symbolic link from "public/storage" to "storage/app/public" with:, _(*13)

$ php artisan storage:link

Login to your app and go to /flexcms, _(*14)

Next steps

Share the lists with the views in your AppServiceProvider.php boot() method, _(*15)

$lists = Cache::rememberForever('lists', function() {
          return Liist::with('siblings')->whereNull('parent_id')->get();
        });
view()->share('lists', $lists);

Include partials in your template (parent lists), _(*16)

@include('flexcms::_lists')

or (parents with siblings), _(*17)

@include('flexcms::_lists-siblings')

Customize the default views

Publish the views, _(*18)

php artisan vendor:publish

list-default.blade.php page-default.blade.php, _(*19)

If you need other type of views you can copy default views and change default into other name. Use your new name while editing lists or pages., _(*20)