Post Manager Package for Laravel

• Post Manager Package for Laravel
  • Installation
    • Composer
    • Service Provider
    • Config and Migration
    • Environment
  • Configuration
    • URL namespace
    • Model and Transformer
    • Auth middleware
  • Post-type
  • Routes

Post management package for managing post in laravel framework

Installation

Composer

To include the package in your project, Please run following command.

composer require vicoders/postmanager

Service Provider

In your config/app.php add the following Service Providers to the end of the providers array:

'providers' => [
        ...
    VCComponent\Laravel\Post\Providers\PostComponentProvider::class,
    VCComponent\Laravel\Post\Providers\PostComponentRouteProvider::class,
],

Config and Migration

Run the following commands to publish configuration and migration files.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="VCComponent\Laravel\Post\Providers\PostComponentProvider"
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Dingo\Api\Provider\LaravelServiceProvider"
php artisan vendor:publish --provider "Prettus\Repository\Providers\RepositoryServiceProvider"

Create tables:

php artisan migrate

Environment

In .env file, we need some configuration.

API_PREFIX=api
API_VERSION=v1
API_NAME="Your API Name"
API_DEBUG=false

Configuration

URL namespace

To avoid duplication with your application's api endpoints, the package has a default namespace for its routes which is post-management. For example:

{{url}}/api/post-management/admin/posts

You can modify the package url namespace to whatever you want by modifying the POST_COMPONENT_NAMESPACE variable in .env file.

POST_COMPONENT_NAMESPACE="your-namespace"

Model and Transformer

You can use your own model and transformer class by modifying the configuration file config\post.php

'models'          => [
    'post' => App\Entities\Post::class,
],

'transformers'    => [
    'post' => App\Transformers\PostTransformer::class,
],

Your Post model class must implements VCComponent\Laravel\Post\Contracts\PostSchema and VCComponent\Laravel\Post\Contracts\PostManagement

<?php

namespace App\Entities;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Prettus\Repository\Contracts\Transformable;
use Prettus\Repository\Traits\TransformableTrait;
use VCComponent\Laravel\Post\Contracts\PostManagement;
use VCComponent\Laravel\Post\Contracts\PostSchema;
use VCComponent\Laravel\Post\Traits\PostManagementTrait;
use VCComponent\Laravel\Post\Traits\PostSchemaTrait;

class Post extends Model implements Transformable, PostSchema, PostManagement
{
    use TransformableTrait, PostSchemaTrait, PostManagementTrait;

    const STATUS_PENDING = 1;
    const STATUS_ACTIVE  = 2;

    protected $fillable = [
        'title',
        'description',
        'content',
    ];
}

Auth middleware

Configure auth middleware in configuration file config\post.php

'auth_middleware' => [
        'admin'    => [
            'middleware' => 'jwt.auth',
            'except'     => ['index'],
        ],
        'frontend' => [
            'middleware' => 'jwt.auth',
            'except'     => ['index'],
        ],
],

Post-type

By default, the package provide posts post-type. If you want to define additional post-type, feel free to add the post-type name to postTypes() method in your Post model class.

public function postTypes()
{
    return [
        'about',
    ];
}

If your post-type has additional fields, just add the schema of your post-type to the Post model class.

public function aboutSchema()
{
    return [
        'information' => [
            'type' => 'text',
            'rule' => ['nullable'],
        ],
        'contact' => [
            'type' => 'text',
            'rule' => ['required'],
        ],
    ];
}

By default, the package will show you a default view. If you want to change the view post-type name to postTypes(), just add the view of your post-type to the Post controller class.

public function viewAbout()
{
    return 'pages.about-view';
}

Routes

The api endpoint should have these format:

Verb	URI
GET	/api/{namespace}/admin/{post-type}
GET	/api/{namespace}/admin/{post-type}/{id}
POST	/api/{namespace}/admin/{post-type}
PUT	/api/{namespace}/admin/{post-type}/{id}
DELETE	/api/{namespace}/admin/{post-type}/{id}
PUT	/api/{namespace}/admin/{post-type}/status/bulk
PUT	/api/{namespace}/admin/{post-type}/status/{id}
----	----
GET	/api/{namespace}/{post-type}
GET	/api/{namespace}/{post-type}/{id}
POST	/api/{namespace}/{post-type}
PUT	/api/{namespace}/{post-type}/{id}
DELETE	/api/{namespace}/{post-type}/{id}
PUT	/api/{namespace}/{post-type}/status/bulk
PUT	/api/{namespace}/{post-type}/status/{id}