Yii2 Articles to create, manage, and delete articles in a Yii2 site.

• Create, edit and delete articles
• Article with attachments, image, gallery, hits
• Manage categories and subcategories
• Advanced Access Permission
• Approval
• Multi-Language with I18N
• Extra Field Management
• SEO Optimization

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

$ php composer.phar require cinghie/yii2-articles "*"

or add

"cinghie/yii2-articles": "*"

Copy img folder to your webroot

Make sure that you have properly configured db application component and run the following command:

$ php yii migrate/up --migrationPath=@vendor/cinghie/yii2-articles/migrations

Set on your configuration file, in modules section

'modules' => [ 

	// Module Articles
	'articles' => [
		'class' => 'cinghie\articles\Articles',
		
		// Select Languages allowed
		'languages' => [ 
			"it-IT" => "it-IT", 
			"en-GB" => "en-GB" 
		],			
		
		// Select Editor: no-editor, ckeditor, imperavi, tinymce, markdown
		'editor' => 'ckeditor',
		
		// Select Path To Upload Category Image
        'categoryImagePath' => '@webroot/img/articles/categories/',
        // Select URL To Upload Category Image
        'categoryImageURL'  => '@web/img/articles/categories/',
        // Select Path To Upload Category Thumb
        'categoryThumbPath' => '@webroot/img/articles/categories/thumb/',
        // Select URL To Upload Category Image
        'categoryThumbURL'  => '@web/img/articles/categories/thumb/',

        // Select Path To Upload Item Image
        'itemImagePath' => '@webroot/img/articles/items/',
        // Select URL To Upload Item Image
        'itemImageURL'  => '@web/img/articles/items/',
        // Select Path To Upload Item Thumb
        'itemThumbPath' => '@webroot/img/articles/items/thumb/',
        // Select URL To Upload Item Thumb
        'itemThumbURL'  => '@web/img/articles/items/thumb/',
		
		// Select Image Name: categoryname, original, casual
		'imageNameType' => 'categoryname',
		// Select Image Types allowed
		'imageType'     => 'jpg,jpeg,gif,png',
		// Thumbnails Options
		'thumbOptions'  => [ 
			'small'  => ['quality' => 100, 'width' => 150, 'height' => 100],
			'medium' => ['quality' => 100, 'width' => 200, 'height' => 150],
			'large'  => ['quality' => 100, 'width' => 300, 'height' => 250],
			'extra'  => ['quality' => 100, 'width' => 400, 'height' => 350],
		],
	],	
	
	// Module Kartik-v Grid
	'gridview' =>  [
		'class' => '\kartik\grid\Module',
	],
	
	// Module Kartik-v Markdown Editor
	'markdown' => [
		'class' => 'kartik\markdown\Module',
	],

]

Advanced Template recommended configuration

The migrations add to the database 4 types of users:

1. Admin:
   • Can Create Categories
   • Can Publish Categories
   • Can Delete Categories
   • Can Update Categories
   • Can Index Categories
   • Can Create Articles
   • Can Publish all Articles
   • Can Update all Articles
   • Can Delete all Articles
   • Can Index all Articles
   • Can View all Articles
2. Editor:
   • Can Create Categories
   • Can't Publish Categories
   • Can't Delete Categories
   • Can Update Categories
   • Can Index Categories
   • Can Create Articles
   • Can Publish his Articles
   • Can Update all Articles
   • Can Delete his Articles
   • Can Index Articles
   • Can View all Articles
3. Publisher:
   • Can't Create Categories
   • Can't Publish Categories
   • Can't Delete Categories
   • Can't Update Categories
   • Can Index Categories
   • Can Create Articles
   • Can Publish his Articles
   • Can Update his Articles
   • Can Delete his Articles
   • Can Index his Articles
   • Can View all Articles
4. Author:
   • Can't Create Categories
   • Can't Publish Categories
   • Can't Delete Categories
   • Can't Update Categories
   • Can Index Categories
   • Can Create Articles
   • Can't Publish his Articles
   • Can Update his Articles
   • Can't Delete Articles
   • Can't Index Articles
   • Can View Articles

• Admin Panel: PathToApp/index.php?r=articles
• Admin Panel with Pretty Urls: PathToApp/articles
• Categories: PathToApp/index.php?r=articles/categories
• Categories with Pretty Urls: PathToApp/articles/categories
• Items: PathToApp/index.php?r=articles/items
• Items with Pretty Urls: PathToApp/articles/items
• Attachments: PathToApp/index.php?r=articles/attachments
• Attachments with Pretty Urls: PathToApp/articles/attachments

• Version 0.4.1 - Update RBAC functions
• Version 0.4.0 - Adding first RBAC functions
• Version 0.3.1 - Adding image to categories view
• Version 0.3.0 - Deny to not logged to index, create, update, delete; only view permitted
• Version 0.2.7 - Update Articles Params
• Version 0.2.6 - Update Migrations
• Version 0.2.5 - Update Asset Depends
• Version 0.2.4 - Update Italian Translations
• Version 0.2.3 - Update Asset setting articles.css after bootstrap
• Version 0.2.2 - Update Item View
• Version 0.2.1 - Adding video_type field in Items and fixed modified
• Version 0.2.0 - Adding Upload Image in Items
• Version 0.1.14 - Cleaning Categories Code
• Version 0.1.13 - Generalizing Upload File Field
• Version 0.1.12 - Adding Migrations Example
• Version 0.1.11 - Fixing Delete Image in Categories
• Version 0.1.10 - Adding Admin Menù
• Version 0.1.9 - Adding Attachment's Files
• Version 0.1.8 - Refactoring Categories Upload Image
• Version 0.1.7 - Fixing TinyMCE problems
• Version 0.1.6 - Adding Imperavi Redactor as Editor in Categories and Items
• Version 0.1.5 - Update Item Created and Modified
• Version 0.1.4 - Adding Item Variables in Module
• Version 0.1.3 - Refactoring Module Variables
• Version 0.1.2 - Added Facebook and Twitter Item View
• Version 0.1.1 - Added Attachment's Table in database
• Version 0.1.0 - Refactoring Project
• Version 0.0.7 - Added Image Upload for Categories
• Version 0.0.6 - Added Composer
• Version 0.0.5 - Fixed problem with Upload Image
• Version 0.0.4 - Added editors ckeditor, tinymce, markdown from other Packages
• Version 0.0.3 - Various Fix and Update for Categories Views
• Version 0.0.2 - Added multi-language with I18N
• Version 0.0.1 - Initial Releases

• Yii2 Grid: https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-grid
• Yii2 Widget: https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-widgets
• Yii2 mPDF: https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-mpdf
• Yii2 MarkDown: https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-markdown
• Yii2 CKEditor: https://github.com/2amigos/yii2-ckeditor-widget
• Yii2 TinyMCE: https://github.com/2amigos/yii2-tinymce-widget
• Yii2 Imperavi Redactor: https://github.com/asofter/yii2-imperavi-redactor