README

Laravel Blog is a package that provides a simple blog system for Laravel applications.

Features

• Categories
• Posts
• Comments
• Media Types (Text, Single Image, Multiple Image, Video)
• Video Embedding (YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion)

External Requirements

This package requires 2 external packages for its functionality.

• spatie/laravel-sluggable
• spatie/laravel-medialibrary

External Suggestions

You can use the following packages to enhance the functionality of the blog system.

• spatie/laravel-tags

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require ozankurt/laravel-blog

Publish the package assets:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Ozankurt\Blog\BlogServiceProvider"

Run the migrations:

php artisan migrate

Usage

Modify the config/blog.php configuration file to customize the package settings.

return [

    'database' => [
        'connection' = env('DB_CONNECTION', 'mysql'),
        'table_prefix' => 'blog_',
    ],

    'models' => [
        'user' => App\Models\User::class,

        /** If you want to use your own models, you can extend the package models. */
        'category' => OzanKurt\Blog\Category::class,
        'comment' => OzanKurt\Blog\Comment::class,
        'post' => OzanKurt\Blog\Post::class,
    ],

    'media' => [
        'disk' => 'public',
    ],

    'video_thumbnail_qualities' => [
        /** Vimeo options: 'thumbnail_small', 'thumbnail_medium', 'thumbnail_large' */
        'vimeo' => 'thumbnail_medium',
        /** YouTube options: '0', '1', '2', '3', 'default', 'hqdefault', 'mqdefault', 'sddefault', 'maxresdefault' */
        'youtube' => 'default',
    ],

    'caching' => [
        'enabled' => false,
        'duration' => 15,
    ],
];

API

Category

Post

Posts have a type_id attribute so that the users can choose between:

• Text Post
• Single Image Post
• Multiple Image Post
• Video Post

Videos support 3 different providers:

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• DailyMotion

Comment