Laravel Testimonials

A Laravel 4 package for adding testimonials to a website

Features

• Paginated index view with configurable results per page
• Draft/Approved status
• Soft deletes
• Configurable URLs, e.g. /testimonials and /testimonials/< testimonial slug >
• Fields for title, slug, image, YouTube video, content, source, published date, status, page title, meta description and keywords

Installation

Add the following to you composer.json file

"fbf/laravel-testimonials": "dev-master"

Run

composer update

Add the following to app/config/app.php

'Fbf\LaravelTestimonials\LaravelTestimonialsServiceProvider'

Run the package migration

php artisan migrate --package=fbf/laravel-testimonials

Publish the config

php artisan config:publish fbf/laravel-testimonials

Create the relevant image upload directories that you specify in your config, e.g.

public/uploads/packages/fbf/laravel-testimonials/original
public/uploads/packages/fbf/laravel-testimonials/resized
public/uploads/packages/fbf/laravel-testimonials/thumbnail

Configuration

See the src/config/config.php file for options

Faker Seed

There is a faker seed that can be used to create fake testimonials content for the purposes of testing, to run it...

php artisan db:seed --class=Fbf\LaravelTestimonials\TestimonialsTableFakeSeeder

Administrator

You can use the excellent Laravel Administrator package by frozennode to administer your testimonials.

http://administrator.frozennode.com/docs/installation

A ready-to-use model config file for the Testimonial model (testimonials.php) is provided in the src/config/administrator directory of the package, which you can copy into the app/config/administrator directory (or whatever you set as the model_config_path in the administrator config file).