Production ready but still under ACTIVE development:

This is a blog package for laravel. Most of the packages available tend to force the user to use an administration panel or have them as the base package., _(*1)

This package is meant to be dropped into an existing app to provide blogging functionality with media management capability., _(*2)

Installation

The package can be used from laravel 5.3 and above. To install:, _(*3)

Run:, _(*4)

composer require tyondo/aggregator

in the config/app.php add:, _(*5)

Tyondo\Aggregator\TyondoAggregatorServiceProvider::class,

If you are a developer, you can contribute and extend by cloning it in: packages/tyondo folder and then in your composer.json file add:, _(*6)

"Tyondo\\Aggregator\\": "packages/tyondo/aggregator/src/"

and then require the extra packages used by aggregator:, _(*7)

"laravelcollective/html": "5.3.1|5.4.1",
"unisharp/laravel-filemanager": "^1.8",
"intervention/image": "^2.4",

After either of the above steps. Run, _(*8)

php artisan aggregator:install

This will install the package fully, _(*9)

Features

Create different post types (standard, video, audio)
Use of Tags
Use of categories
Generation of youtube video thumbnails
Media manager for managing images, audios and videos
Integrated media manager in the text editor (ckeditor used)
Image resizing

Pending features

Parametrizing the image resizing funtionality
Building blog API end points.
Blog settings
Blog user profile
Blog contributors

Usage

Accessing posts

There are several ways that you can retrive posts stored by the aggregator 1. All posts $posts = \Tyondo\Aggregator\Models\Post::all() 2. Posts based on their type (published, draft, review, inactive) $posts = \Tyondo\Aggregator\Models\Post::where('post_status','published')->get(), _(*10)

Post return fields and method

When you retrieve a given post you will have access to the following parameters and methods * id * title * slug * subtitle * body * summary * meta_description * post_type * featured_content * is_published * user_id * post_status * category_id * featured_image * view_count * key_words * created_at * updated_at * category() * tags() * user(), _(*11)

###Using on a blog 1. How to access post author {{ucfirst($post->user->name)}} 2. How to access post category {{$post->category->category}} 3. How to access post created time in human language {{$post->created_at->diffForHumans()}} 4. How to access youtube thumbnail from featured content {{Aggregator::youtubeVideo($post->featured_content)}} 5. How to get youtube iframe source link {{Aggregator::youtubeVideo($post->featured_content, true)}} 6. How to access day when the post was created {{ $post->created_at->format('d')}} 7. How to access month when post was created {{$post->created_at->format('M')}} 8. How to access post featured image {{$post->featured_image}} 9. How to add post links {{route('your.post.route', $post->slug)}} 10. How to list tags @if(isset($tags)) @foreach($tags as $tag) <li><a href="{{route('your.tag.route', $tag->tag)}}">{{$tag->title}}</a></li> @endforeach @endif 11. How to list categories 0. How to access post tags @foreach($post->tags->toArray() as $tag ) <a href="{{$tag['id']}}">{{$tag['title']}}</a> @endforeach, _(*12)