delatbabel/nestedcategories

A Laravel 5 package for nested categories.

nestedcategories

, _(*1)

A Laravel 5 package for adding one or more types of category hierarchy to a website., _(*2)

e.g. a hierarchy for blog categories and another for product categories, _(*3)

This is a Laravel 5 reimplementation of Laravel 4 Categories, _(*4)

Comes with

• Migration for the categories table
• Category Model (that extends Baum/Node so you can use all the handy methods from this excellent nested set implementation)
• Seed for building the root nodes, one for each type of hierarchy, specified in your config file

Installation

Add these lines to your composer.json file:, _(*5)

    "require": {
        "delatbabel/nestedcategories": "~1.0"
    },

Once that is done, run the composer update command:, _(*6)

    composer update

Alternatively just run this command:, _(*7)

    composer require delatbabel/nestedcategories

Register Service Provider

After composer update completes, add this line to your config/app.php file in the 'providers' array:, _(*8)

    Delatbabel\NestedCategories\NestedCategoriesServiceProvider::class

Publish the Migrations

Publish the migrations, _(*9)

    php artisan vendor:publish

Run the migration, _(*10)

    php artisan migrate

Ensure the categories types are set correctly in the seeder file. You can initialise this to whatever you like., _(*11)

Run the Seeders

Run the seed (this will create root nodes for each of your category types), _(*12)

    php artisan db:seed --class="CategoriesTableBaseArraySeeder"

You may prefer to build your own CategoriesTableSeeder class based on the code in CategoriesTableBaseArraySeeder to seed your own initial set of categories., _(*13)

Usage

This class relies on the behind-the-scenes capabilities of Baum. For details on the use of that see the README on github or the Baum web site, _(*14)