Nova Page Manager

This Laravel Nova package allows you to create and manage pages and regions. The package is geared towards headless CMS's.

Requirements

• Laravel Nova <= 2.0.7 || >= 2.0.10

Laravel Nova 2.0.8 and 2.0.9 are breaking for Nova Page Manager.

Features

• Pages and Regions management
• Programmatically created templates for Pages and Regions
• Multilanguage support
• Optional pages draft support

Screenshots

Installation

Install the package in a Laravel Nova project via Composer and run migrations:

# Install package
composer require optimistdigital/nova-page-manager

# Run automatically loaded migrations
php artisan migrate

Publish the nova-page-manager configuration file and edit it to your preference:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="OptimistDigital\NovaPageManager\ToolServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Register the tool with Nova in the tools() method of the NovaServiceProvider:

// in app/Providers/NovaServiceProvider.php

public function tools()
{
    return [
        // ...
        new \OptimistDigital\NovaPageManager\NovaPageManager
    ];
}

Usage

Creating templates

Templates can be created using the following Artisan command:

php artisan pagemanager:template {className}

This will ask you a few additional details and will create a base template in App\Nova\Templates.

The template base has a few properties:

// Define whether the template is for a page or a region
// Applicable values: 'page', 'region'
public static $type = 'page';

// The unique name for the page, usually similar to a slug
public static $name = 'about-us';

// The package has built in SEO fields support
// This boolean decides whether or not to display them
public static $seo = false;

// If you want to have multiple views with different
// templates, you can set two templates to have the
// same 'view' string and use it instead for matching
public static $view = null;

// Return all fields here, just as you would inside a resource
public function fields(Request $request): array
{
  return [
      Text::make('Title', 'title')
  ];
}

Registering templates

All your templates have to be registered in the config/nova-page-manager.php config file.

// in /config/nova-page-manager.php

// ...
'templates' => [
  \App\Nova\Templates\HomePageTemplate::class,
],
// ...

Defining locales

Locales can be defined similarly to how templates are registered. The config accepts a dictionary of locales.

// in /config/nova-page-manager.php

// ...
'locales' => [
  'en' => 'English',
  'et' => 'Estonian',
],

// OR

'locales' => function () {
  return Locale::all()->pluck('name', 'key');
},

// if you wish to cache the configuration, pass a reference instead:

'locales' => NovaPageManagerConfiguration::class . '::locales',
// ...

Enabling page draft feature

Draft feature allows you to create previews of pages before publishing them. By default this feature is not installed, but you can install nova-drafts with the following command.

composer require optimistdigital/nova-drafts

Overriding SEO fields

The default SEO fields can be overridden using the configuration file. The configuration file contains the key seo_fields which accepts an array (or a callable which returns an array) of fields.

Modify page path

To add a locale prefix to page paths or to modify page paths for any other reason on the Page model, supply a callback to page_path in the config.

// in /config/nova-page-manager.php

// ...
'page_path' => function (Page $page) {
  return "{$page->locale}/{$page->path}";
},

// if you wish to cache the configuration, pass a reference instead:

'page_path' => NovaPageManagerConfiguration::class . '::pageUrl',
// ...

Add links to front-end pages

To display a link to the actual page next to the slug, add or overwrite the closure in config/nova-page-manager.php for the key page_url.

// in /config/nova-page-manager.php

// ...
'page_url' => function (Page $page) {
  return env('FRONTEND_URL') . $page->path;
},

// if you wish to cache the configuration, pass a reference instead:

'page_url' => NovaPageManagerConfiguration::class . '::pageUrl',
// ...

Overwrite package resources

You can overwrite the package resources (Page & Region) by setting the config options in nova-page-manager.php.

Note: If you create your resources under App\Nova namespace, to avoid key duplication you must manually register all other resources in the NovaServiceProvider. See registering resources on Nova documentation.

Modifying Field values

All fields have a registered macro resolveResponseUsing(callable $resolveResponseCallback) which allows you to modify the field's value before it is returned through the Page Manager's API (ie nova_get_page()).

The signature for the callback is: function ($value, $templateModel) { ... }.

For example:

Multiselect::make('Products')
  ->options(Product::all()->pluck('name', 'id'))
  ->resolveResponseUsing(function ($value, $templateModel) {
      return Product::findMany($value);
  }),

Helper functions

nova_get_pages_structure($previewToken)

The helper function nova_get_pages_structure($previewToken) returns the base pages structure (slugs, templates, child-parent relationships) that you can build your routes upon in the front-end. This does not return the pages' data. Preview token is optional and used only if draft feature is enabled. By default drafts will not be included in the structure.

Example response:

[
  {
    "locales": ["en_US", "et_EE"],
    "id": {
      "en_US": 3,
      "et_EE": 4
    },
    "name": {
      "en_US": "Home",
      "et_EE": "Kodu"
    },
    "slug": {
      "en_US": "/",
      "et_EE": "/"
    },
    "template": "home-page",
    "children": [
      {
        "locales": ["en_US"],
        "id": {
          "en_US": 5
        },
        "name": {
          "en_US": "About"
        },
        "slug": {
          "en_US": "about"
        },
        "template": "home-page"
      }
    ]
  }
]

nova_get_regions()

The helper function nova_get_regions() returns all the regions and their data.

Example response:

[
  {
    "locales": ["en_US"],
    "id": {
      "en_US": 3
    },
    "name": {
      "en_US": "Main header"
    },
    "template": "main-header",
    "data": {
      "en_US": {
        "content": [
          {
            "layout": "horizontal-text-section",
            "attributes": {
              "text": "Lorem ipsum"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
]

nova_get_page($pageId)

The helper function nova_get_page($pageId) finds and returns the page with the given ID.

Example response for querying page with ID 3 (nova_get_page(3)):

{
  "locale": "en_US",
  "id": 3,
  "name": "Home",
  "slug": "/",
  "data": {
    "banner": [],
    "categories_grid": []
  },
  "template": "home-page"
}

nova_get_page_by_slug($slug, $previewToken)

The helper function nova_get_page_by_slug($slug, $previewToken) finds and returns the page with the given slug. Preview token is optional and used to query draft pages when draft feature is enabled.

Example response for querying page with slug /home and preview token L1SVNKDzBNVkBq8EQSna (nova_get_page_by_slug("home", "L1SVNKDzBNVkBq8EQSna")):

{
  "locale": "en_US",
  "id": 3,
  "name": "Home",
  "slug": "/",
  "data": {
    "banner": [],
    "categories_grid": []
  },
  "template": "home-page",
  "preview_token": "L1SVNKDzBNVkBq8EQSna"
}

nova_page_manager_get_page_by_path($slug, $previewToken, $locale)

The helper function nova_page_manager_get_page_by_path($slug, $previewToken, $locale) finds and returns the page with the given path and all of it's parents. Preview token and locale are optional. Preview token is used to query draft pages when draft feature is enabled.

Example response for querying page with slug /home/about and preview token L1SVNKDzBNVkBq8EQSna (nova_page_manager_get_page_by_path("home/about", "L1SVNKDzBNVkBq8EQSna")):

{
  "locale": "en_US",
  "id": 2,
  "name": "about",
  "slug": "about",
  "parent": {
    "locale": "en_US",
    "id": 1,
    "name": "home",
    "slug": "home",
    "path": "/home",
    "parent_id": null,
    "data": {
      "banner": [],
      "categories_grid": []
    },
    "template": "home-page"
  },
  "parent_id": 1,
  "template": "about-page",
  "preview_token": "L1SVNKDzBNVkBq8EQSna",
  "path": "/home/about"
}

nova_page_manager_get_page_by_template($slug, $previewToken, $locale)

This helper function finds and returns the first page with the given template. If optional parameter $locale is not defined, the function will return page structure with locale children. Otherwise only returns single page (similarly to nova_get_page());

{
  "locale": {
    "0": "en",
    "1": "ru"
  },
  "id": {
    "en": 1,
    "ru": 2
  },
  "name": {
    "en": "Home En",
    "ru": "Home Ru"
  },
  "slug": {
    "en": "/",
    "ru": "/ru"
  },
  "path": {
    "en": "/",
    "ru": "/ru"
  },
  "parent_id": {
    "en": null,
    "ru": null
  },
  "template": "home-page"
}

Localization

The translation file(s) can be published by using the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="OptimistDigital\NovaPageManager\ToolServiceProvider" --tag="translations"

You can add your translations to resources/lang/vendor/nova-page-manager/ by creating a new translations file with the locale name (ie et.json) and copying the JSON from the existing en.json.

Credits

• Tarvo Reinpalu
• Kaspar Rosin

License

Nova page manager is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.