Amila Laravel CMS

• Free, open-source Simple Bootstrap Laravel CMS for any EXISTING Laravel 7.x or 6.x or old Laravel 5.x website.
• Only add a few database tables with a prefix, not effect your existing database tables.
• You can easily custom the database table names, the page URL path(route) and the template(theme)
• Website is ready after install. Easy to use, simple enough but flexible.
• Basic Laravel 7.x /Laravel 6.x / Laravel 5.x syntax and blade template, no need to learn a new "language"

How to install & uninstall (Support Laravel 7.x & Laravel 6.x & Laravel 5.x)

// Make sure you already configured the database in the .env
// Go to the laravel project folder and install it via composer
// Initialize the CMS (You can set up database table prefix and locale here)

composer require alexstack/laravel-cms && php artisan laravelcms


// Now you can access the cms frontend site: http://yourdomain/cms-home

// Access the backend with the FIRST USER of your site: http://yourdomain/cmsadmin

// Uninstall the CMS
php artisan laravelcms --action=uninstall

Demo & Documents

• Laravel CMS frontend demo & documents 📙

Screenshot of the output of install command

Screenshot of the output of uninstalling command

Screenshot of the admin panel

Set locale language to cn instead of en

Error "Route [login] not defined" while access the backend /cmsadmin/

• This means you did not install Laravel Auth(User system)
• Can be fixed by the below commands:

// Laravel 6.x & Laravel >= 7
composer require laravel/ui && php artisan ui vue --auth
// Laravel 5.x, run blow command instead
php artisan make:auth && php artisan migrate

• After install the Auth package, please register the first user as the admin

How to log into the backend /cmsadmin/?

• Amila CMS use your existing Laravel user system
• You need to log in with the FIRST USER of your site (user_id = 1)
• You can add more admin users by change the admin_ary in config/laravel-cms.php
• If you don't have any existing user, then register a new one via http://your-domain/register

Why the uploaded image can not display (404 error)

• You can fix it by creating a storage public link
• php artisan storage:link
• eg. The public/storage should link to ../storage/app/public, if the public/storage is a real folder, you should remove/rename it and run "php artisan storage:link" to set up the link.

Custom the cms route in config/laravel-cms.php

• homepage_route: This is the frontend homepage. By default it is /cms-home, you can change it to / then remove the existing / route in the routes/web.php

# Change homepage_route to /  in config/laravel-cms.php
'homepage_route'    => env('LARAVEL_CMS_HOMEPAGE_ROUTE', '/'),

# Remove the existing / route in the routes/web.php

// Route::get('/', function () {
//     return view('welcome');
// });

• page_route_prefix: This is the frontend page prefix. By default it is /cms-, it will match path like /cms-*. You can change it to a folder like /xxx/ or anything like xxx-, eg. Page- Article-

'page_route_prefix' => env('LARAVEL_CMS_PAGE_PREFIX', '/Article-'),

• admin_route: This is the backend admin page route, By default, it is /cmsadmin

'admin_route'       => env('LARAVEL_CMS_BACKEND_ROUTE', '/admin2019'),

• After changing the route, you will need to run below commands:

php artisan laravelcms --action=clear

Display an image with different size in the frontend Laravel .blade.php template file

• .blade.php Code examples:

@if ( isset($file_data->main_image) )
    <img src="{{$helper->imageUrl($file_data->main_image, '1000') }}" class="img-fluid" />

    <img src="{{$helper->imageUrl($file_data->main_image, '500') }}" class="img-fluid" />

    <img src="{{$helper->imageUrl($file_data->main_image, 'w', '150') }}" class="img-fluid" />

    <img src="{{$helper->imageUrl($file_data->main_image, '100', '100') }}" class="img-fluid" />

    <img src="{{$helper->imageUrl($file_data->main_image, 'original', 'original') }}" class="img-fluid" />

@endif

• You can get an image with any width and height. or use the original image.
• Available image variables: $file_data->main_image, $file_data->main_banner, $file_data->extra_image, $file_data->extra_image_2
• The CMS will resize the image at the first time, then will directly use it afterwards.

How to change the CSS & JS assets of the frontend?

• The asset files located at public/laravel-cms/<theme_name>, eg. public/laravel-cms/frontend/css
• Example code to load css or js:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ $helper->assetUrl('css/main.css') }}">
...
<script src="{{ $helper->assetUrl('js/bottom.js') }}"></script>

• The default template file will load CSS and js asset with last_modify_time parameter to avoid cache from the browser

How to set up a different template theme from the default?

• Copy the default theme folder /resources/views/laravel-cms/frontend to /resources/views/laravel-cms/new_theme
• Change the frontend_dir in the settings page to new_theme
• Default value in config/laravel-cms.php

    'template' => [
        'frontend_dir'      => 'frontend',
        'backend_dir'       => 'backend',
        'backend_language'  => 'en',
        'frontend_language' => 'en',
    ]

• run php artisan config:cache to load new config file
• Change template settings for the pages in the backend
• The css/js asset files will locate at public/laravel-cms/new_theme

Set default slug format and suffix for page SEO URL in config/laravel-cms.php

• You can change it in the settings page
• 'slug_format' can be from_title, id, pinyin
• 'slug_suffix' can be anything you want, empty means no suffix

    'slug_format'   => 'from_title',
    'slug_suffix'   => '.html',
    'slug_separate' => '-',

Use your own PHP class / How to integrate your PHP code into the CMS

• One simple option is to implement a method from your own PHP controller/class by adding it into a cms page. Tutorial for it.
• Another option is to create a CMS plugin for your own project and use it for all pages. A tutorial is here. You can also publish the plugin if the feature can be used by other websites.

How to set up a brand new Laravel 6.x or 7.x website & install our CMS

• It's good for a local test

// Install Laravel 6.x/7.x & the CMS package
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel cms && cd cms && composer require alexstack/laravel-cms

// Then you need to change the database settings in the .env after that initialize CMS
cd cms & vi .env
php artisan laravelcms

// Or initialize the CMS with silent mode
php artisan laravelcms --action=initialize --locale=en --table_prefix=cms_  --silent=yes

// Enable auth system for Laravel 6.x/7.x
composer require laravel/ui && php artisan ui vue --auth && php artisan migrate

// Config the document root to point to the cms/public then you can access the backend
// Tips: You will need to register a new user, the first user will be the admin user

How to upgrade the CMS?

• Run below command in your Laravel project folder
• It will ask whether you want to copy the new view, asset and language files to your project

composer require alexstack/laravel-cms && php artisan laravelcms --action=upgrade

• Upgrade screenshot

ReactJS for backend All Pages list

• Laravel CMS use ReactJS for backend All Pages list, the ReactJS source code can be found here
• The compiled js file is here: /public/laravel-cms/backend/js/reactLaravelCmsBackend.js
• It can be switch to normal Laravel blade page by change the "react_js": true to false in the setting system.all_pages

What PHP versions do you support?

• Amila Laravel CMS passed the basic test on PHP 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

License

• The Amila Laravel CMS is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.