Cells for Laravel 4 - Beta
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Cells are view components for Laravel 4. They are mini-controllers with their own MVC stack, can invoke logic and render views., (*2)
Installation
To get the latest version of Cells simply require it in your composer.json file., (*3)
"torann/cells": "dev-master"
You'll then need to run composer install to download it and have the autoloader updated., (*4)
Once Cells is installed you need to register the service provider with the application. Open up app/config/app.php and find the providers key., (*5)
'providers' => array(
'Torann\Cells\CellsServiceProvider',
)
Cells also ships with a facade which provides the static syntax for creating collections. You can register the facade in the aliases key of your app/config/app.php file., (*6)
'aliases' => array(
'Cells' => 'Torann\Cells\Facades\CellsFacade',
)
Create configuration file using artisan, (*7)
$ php artisan config:publish torann/cells
Creating a cell
You can create a cell using artisan command:, (*8)
php artisan cells:create demo
The parameter is the cell name., (*9)
Now you will see a controller class at /app/cells/CellDemo.php and view at /app/cells/demo/display.blade.php, (*10)
Rendering
Using the Blade helper, (*11)
@cell('demo', 'display')
- The first parameter is the cell name.
- The second parameter is the view type, by default it is "display".
Calling your cell in a view and passing Demo Cell! as the label, (*12)
echo Cells::get('demo', 'display', array('label' => 'Demo Cell!'));
Caching
Cells can be cached based on minutes. Simple change the $cache variable in the cell controller to the number of minutes the cell should be cached., (*13)
class CellDemo extends CellBaseController {
/**
* Default cache value in minutes.
*
* @var string
*/
public $cache = 60;
}
By default caching is disabled in the local environment. To enable this change the setting disable_cache_in_dev to false in the config file., (*14)
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