CMS

Content Management System built on Twig and Laravel

Install using composer require siipis/cms

Known issues

Template caching causes problems with page configuration. You can either regularly clear the cache by running the console command twig:clean or by disabling the cache altogether.

Set 'cache' => false, in the twigbridge.php config file to disable caching.

Usage

Service provider & Facade

Add the following lines in the app.php config file:

Providers:

Siipis\CMS\ServiceProvider::class,

Aliases:

'Twig'      => TwigBridge\Facade\Twig::class,
'YAML'      => Symfony\Component\Yaml\Yaml::class,
 
'CMS'       => Siipis\CMS\Facade\CMS::class,
'CMS_Helper'=> Siipis\CMS\Facade\Scaffolding::class,
'CMS_Parser'=> Siipis\CMS\Facade\Parser::class,

Routing

Add at the end of the routes.php file

/*
 *  Catch-all route for views
 */
Route::get('{route}', function ($route) {
    return CMS::view($route);
})->where('route', '.*');

Add a twig file under resources/views/pages to serve the view without a controller in between.

Within controllers

CMS views can be served through the CMS facade using CMS::view('page'). Note that paths are relative to the pages directory.

Folder configuration

Place the following directories directly under the template root (default resources/views)

• layout
• menus
• pages
• partials

Extended Twig syntax

{% page %}

Used in layout files for indicating where the page is placed in the layout.

{% title %}

Placeholder tag for the page title.

Include helpers

The following helper tags are included to clean up the syntax. All paths are relative to the include type.

• {% menu 'filename' %}
• {% partial 'filename' %}

Layout pages

The pagecontains an optional config section in the beginning of the file. The divider is ===.

Typical layout file:

title: Welcome
layout: default
with: 
- world: "Twig"
data:
- users:all

===

Hello {{ world }}

<br />

{% for user in users %}
   <p>{{ user.name }}</p>
{% endfor %}

Available config tags

• title: Page title, appended using {% title %}
• layout: Name of a file in the layout directory, with or without the .twig extension
• with: Key value attributes to be sent to the page
• data: Data provider accessor

Data Providers

Data providers extend the CMS\DataProvider class and can be used to serve data without a controller.

Use php artisan make:data ProviderName to create a new data provider. By default data providers are located in the app/CMS/Data directory.

Data providers must implement three methods:

• getAccessor: name of the accessor called by the config, e.g. 'users'
• dataAll(): returns all entries, called with <accessor>:all
• dataOne($id): returns a single entry, called with <accessor>:one[1]

Additional methods can be created by additional methods.

Accessing the data

The data is automatically sent to the view and can be accessed by the accessor name, e.g. {{ users }}. If users:one[1] was called, the accessor is in singular, i.e. user.

Pseudo numbers

Accessor methods accept the following pseudo numbers (example: users:one[#auth]):

• #auth: returns the id of the authenticated user, or null if no login exists
• #url: returns the last url query, e.g. http://example.com/foo/bar returns bar

The pseudo numbers are defined in CMS\Parser\DataParser.php.