Laravel Carousel

A Laravel 4 package for adding a carousel to a website, _(*1)

Features

Supports carousel slides with text panel that is typically a background image overlaid with title, intro para and link, and also supports optional carousel navigation with icon image and title.
Bundled FrozenNode/Administrator config file to manage the panel data, including custom actions for reordering
Bundled view that you can include as a partial for example on your site's homepage, and a model method for getting all the data to populate that view.

Installation

Add the following to you composer.json file, _(*2)

"fbf/laravel-carousel": "dev-master"

Run, _(*3)

composer update

Add the following to app/config/app.php, _(*4)

'Fbf\LaravelCarousel\LaravelCarouselServiceProvider'

Publish the config, _(*5)

php artisan config:publish fbf/laravel-carousel

Run the migration, _(*6)

php artisan migrate --package="fbf/laravel-carousel"

Create the relevant image upload directories that you specify in your config, e.g., _(*7)

public/uploads/packages/fbf/laravel-carousel/background/original
public/uploads/packages/fbf/laravel-carousel/background/resized
public/uploads/packages/fbf/laravel-carousel/icon/original
public/uploads/packages/fbf/laravel-carousel/icon/resized

Usage

In your controller, _(*8)

$panels = Fbf\LaravelCarousel\Panel::getData();
return View::make('home')->with(compact('panels'));

In your blade template:, _(*9)

@inlcude('laravel-carousel::carousel')

Administrator

You can use the excellent Laravel Administrator package by frozennode to administer your carousel., _(*10)

http://administrator.frozennode.com/docs/installation, _(*11)

A ready-to-use model config file for the Panel model (carousel_panels.php) is provided in the src/config/administrator directory of the package, which you can copy into the app/config/administrator directory (or whatever you set as the model_config_path in the administrator config file)., _(*12)