fbf/laravel-categories

A Laravel 4 package for adding one or more types of category hierarchies to a website

Laravel Categories

A Laravel 4 package for adding one or more types of category hierarchies to a website, _(*1)

e.g. a hierarchy for blog categories and another for product categories, _(*2)

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
• Sample FrozenNode/Administrator config file for managing the categories

Installation

Add the following to you composer.json file (Recommend swapping "dev-master" for the latest release), _(*3)

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

Run, _(*4)

composer update

Add the following to app/config/app.php, _(*5)

'Fbf\LaravelCategories\LaravelCategoriesServiceProvider'

Publish the config, _(*6)

php artisan config:publish fbf/laravel-categories

Run the migration, _(*7)

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

Ensure the categories types are set correctly in the config file., _(*8)

Run the seed (this will create root nodes for each of your category types), _(*9)

php artisan db:seed --class="Fbf\LaravelCategories\CategoriesTableBaseSeeder"

Build your menus in the database, or if you are using FrozenNode's Laravel Administrator, see the info below, _(*10)

Administrator

You can use the excellent Laravel Administrator package by FrozenNode to administer your categories., _(*11)

http://administrator.frozennode.com/docs/installation, _(*12)

A ready-to-use model config file for the Category model (categories.php), including custom actions to reorder nodes in the hierarchy, 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)., _(*13)