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verb. To write in a hurried or careless way.

Just get writing.

Scrawl is designed to be the lowest friction markdown file based single user blogging solution for Laravel

Documentation

For the full documentation, visit the Scrawl home page.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require projektgopher/scrawl

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Projektgopher\Scrawl\BlogServiceProvider" --tag="scrawl-config"

This is the contents of the published config file:

return [

    /**
     * These folders are located in the resources directory. We suggest
     * storing them in a directory named md (markdown) to follow
     * with the conventions of the resources directory.
     */
    "unpublished_directory" => "md/scrawl/unpublished",
    "published_directory" => "md/scrawl/published",
    "blog_directory" => "md/scrawl",

    "author_bio" => "",
    "author_name" => "",
    "author_link" => "",
    "author_photo" => "",
    "author_photo_alt" => "",

    "route_group" => "blog",

    "view" => [
        /**
         * Read the list of driver options below, and
         * choose the option that best suits you.
         */
        "driver" => "standalone",

        /**
         * Use "none" if you'd like to return the data as JSON.
         * Particularly useful for Vue or React based blogs.
         */
        "none" => "",

        /**
         * Use "custom" if you don't have a main layout file
         * but also don't want to use the one provided.
         */
        "custom" => "",

        /**
         * Use "standalone" if you don't have a main layout
         * file. Great for just getting started quickly.
         * You can alawys move to a layout based
         * setup later on.
         */
        "standalone" => "",

        /**
         * Use "x-component" if your views include a blade
         * layout component such as <x-layouts.app />
         */
        "x-component" => [
            "component" => "layouts.app",
        ],

        /**
         * Use "blade-layout" if your views extend a
         * base layout using the @extends method.
         */
        "blade-layout" => [
            "extends" => "layouts.app",
            "section" => "body",
        ],
    ],

];

Usage

Scrawl is desgined to be used on the CLI. It will automatically register the blog routes, and requires no database as this package is file based, and meant to have your content comitted to the project. Only posts saved in the 'published' directory will be publicly accessible.

php artisan blog:make 'long title that should be sluggified'

This command will ensure that the unpublished directory exists, copy the .md blog post stub into the 'unpublished' directory with a sluggified title.

Now you can just get into writing your post in github flavored markdown without worrying about all the details.

php artisan blog:publish 'name of blog you would like to move to the published directory'

php artisan blog:unpublish 'name of the blog you should not have published yet'

Testing

vendor/bin/phpunit --testdox

Support us

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Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• Len Woodward
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.