laravel-blog

A simple Blog Module for Laravel 5

Features

• Create/update/delete posts.
• Add different category of blog. Create blog in different category.
• Bundled migration for building the database schema
• Facebook API integration. Share/Like on Facebook.
• Twitter API integration. Share on Twitter.
• Google+ API integration. Share on Google+.
• Infinite ajax scroller. No need to click on next page.
• You can customise it as per your requirements.

Installation

1. Create a file called module.php inside the config directory. Add following code in module.php.

    return  [
        'modules' => [
           'Blog',
        ]
    ];
   ```
   
   You can add more then one modules inside `modules` array.  
   

2. Open up the file config/app.php and add 'App\Modules\ModulesServiceProvider', to the end of the providers array.

   'providers' => [
       App\Modules\ModulesServiceProvider::class,
   ]
   

3. Create new folder called Modules inside app directory.

4. Add Blog folder inside Modules directory. App directory structure look like this:

      app/
      |---Modules
          |---Blog
              |---Assets
              |---Components
              |---Controllers
              |---Middleware
              |---Migrations
              |---Models
              |---Views
              |---BlogServiceProvider.php
              |---routes.php
          |---ModulesServiceProvider.php
   

5. Head to the Modules directory and add a file called ModulesServiceProvider.php

6. Run Migrations. For that use following command.

    $ php artisan migrate --path app/Modules/Blog/Migrations
   

   (Role column will be added into your users table. That will be define which user has author/admin role. You can change table name as per your requirement.)

7. Add following methods into app/User.php

    /**
     * user has many posts
     * @return type
     */
    public function posts()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('App\Modules\Blog\Models\Posts', 'author_id');
    }
   
    /**
     * user has many comments
     * @return type
     */
    public function comments()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('App\Modules\Blog\Models\Comments', 'from_user');
    }
   
    /**
     * Check if user can post blog
     * @return boolean
     */
    public function can_post()
    {
        $role = $this->role;
        if ($role == 'author' || $role == 'admin') {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
   
    /**
     * Check if user is admin
     * @return boolean
     */
    public function is_admin()
    {
        $role = $this->role;
        if ($role == 'admin') {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
   

8. To set facebook API key open up Blog/Views/layouts/app.blade.php and set

    appId      : 'your app id',
   

   in line number 8.

9. To get twitter count register your domain on any APIs which providers twitter count. Open up Blog/Views/posts/show.blade.php and set Provided path to

    data-via : 'Your domain path'
   ``` 	   
   in line number 187.
   

10. For Routes you can add/update in Blog/routes.php (Blog module has its own routes.php so you can add/update routes here.)

11. Please run composer dump-autoload, if you come across any Class not found exceptions and you haven’t done anything wrong

Note:

This module is tested in fresh copy of laravel 5. If you have customised your application then please change as per your application.

Demo

http://plugins.auratechmind.net/laravel-blog/public/

Discussion

http://auratechmind.net/question/category/laravel-blog/

Credit

https://opensharecount.com/

https://developers.facebook.com/

http://www.findalltogether.com/tutorial/simple-blog-application-in-laravel-5/