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A simple theme manager that can be used with Laravel 5.

Requirements

• Use with Laravel requires version 5 or above.
• PHP 5.5.9 or greater

Installation

Require this package with Composer

composer require monkblog/theme-manager 1.1.*

Show me the examples already!!

examples.php

Documentation

• Requiring Theme Meta Data Field(s)
  • Injecting Required Field(s) into Starter Class
• Error Handling
• Folder Structure
• Bootstrapping Theme Classes
• Using with Laravel
  • Usages
  • Publish Config
  • Override the base themes path
  • Adding more Themes folder to Manager
• License

Requiring Theme Meta Data Field(s)

This package requires that a theme.yml/theme.yaml file have at least a name field defined.

As of version 1.1 you can define a list of required fields that need to be defined in each theme.yml file. This package will handle and separate the invalid themes from the valid ones.

Go to config/theme-manager.php and change required_fields to the array of required field(s) to be enforced. (see Publish Config section if config is not in your config folder).

Injecting Required Field(s) into Starter Class

If you're not using the Laravel Service Provider, you can pass an array to the \ThemeManager\Starter start() method:

$basePath = null;
$requiredFields = [ 'display_name', 'version', 'license', ];

$starter = ( new \ThemeManager\Starter )->start( $basePath, $requiredFields );

$themeManager = new \ThemeManager\ThemeManager( $starter );

You may also use the helper function as a shortcut:

$themeManager = theme_manager( null, [ 'display_name', 'version', 'license', ] );

Error Handling

As of version 1.1 there's a boolean $exceptionOnInvalid which by default is false. To have the package throw exceptions for invalid themes change exception_on_invalid in config/theme-manager.php to be true or pass true as the $exceptionOnInvalid argument on the start method of \ThemeManager\Starter class.

Folder Structure

This package assumes that you have a themes folder at the root of your project containing all your theme folders.

The 'base path' can be overwritten via config/theme-manager.php or the start( __DIR__ . '/folder/' ) method on the \ThemeManager\Starter class

e.g.

# themes/my-theme/theme.yml
name: my-theme

• app/
• public/
• themes/
  • my-theme/
    • theme.yml
  • my-theme-with-autoload/
    • composer.json
    • helpers.php
    • src/
      • MyThemeNamespace/
        • MyClass.php
        • MyThemeServiceProvider.php
    • theme.yml
    • vendor/
  • my-other-theme/
    • theme.yml
• vendor/

Bootstrapping Theme Classes

Bootstrapping theme Service Provider(s) or other important classes before the application runs:

For Laravel users: this code snippet is probably best placed at the bottom of bootstrap/autoload.php

( new \ThemeManager\Starter )->bootstrapAutoload();

OR

theme_manager_starter()->bootstrapAutoload();

You can also optionally pass in a path to your themes folder if it's different than the default:

theme_manager_starter()->bootstrapAutoload( '/path/to/theme-folder' );

Using with Laravel

Once Composer has installed or updated your packages, you need to register ThemeManager with Laravel. Go into your config/app.php, find the providers key and add:

'ThemeManager\ServiceProvider',

You can add the ThemeManager Facade, to have easier access to the ThemeManager globally:

'ThemeManager' => 'ThemeManager\Facade\ThemeManager',

Usages:

ThemeManager::all();
ThemeManager::getAllThemeNames();

ThemeManager::themeExists( 'theme-name' );
$theme = ThemeManager::getTheme( 'theme-name' );
$themeName = $theme->getName();

Publish Config

Run:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=theme

Override the base themes path:

(See Publish Config section if theme-manager.php isn't present)

Go to config/theme-manager.php and change the base_path to the folder you want to use.

<?php

return [

    'base_path' => __DIR__ . '/../path/to/themes-folder',

    //Other config stuff
    ...
];

Adding more Themes folder to Manager

If you have a secondary themes folder you can add all of the themes to the ThemeManager by using:

ThemeManager::addThemeLocation( base_path( '/path/to/alternative/themes-folder' ) );

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.