paladindigital/laravel-theme-bootstrap

A laravel theme with Bootstrap 3.3.7 loaded from CDN.

Laravel Theme: Bootstrap

Bootstrap Version: 3.3.7, _(*1)

This is a base theme which can be used as-is or extended by other themes., _(*2)

Installation

Add the require in your composer.json file:, _(*3)

"require": {
  ...
  "paladindigital/laravel-bootstrap": "*"
}

If you dont already have the service provider registered in your config/app.php then add it also, _(*4)

'providers' => [
    ...
    PaladinDigital\LaravelThemes\ServiceProvider::class,
]

Theme Usage

Laravel Support (Task Force Dev package)

If you install the taskforcedev/laravel-support package this provides the ability to set a sitewide master layout which will be used in all views., _(*5)

This saves you having to set the longform view name in all page templates. Alternatively you could create your own shared data object., _(*6)

Layouts

• master: The master layout uses container-fluid css class for full-width responsive themes.
• fixed: This layout uses the container css class which constrains page contents to a fixed width.

Yields

• head
• meta
• styles
• navigation
• secondary_navigation
• content
• sidebar
• footer

Stacks

• widgets
• scripts

Page Meta

The following meta tags will be populated if provided by controllers (the easiest way to do this is to create a method on your base controller to populate a shared data object then pass this along with any extra page specific data to your views)., _(*7)

• $charset : String (optional), default: UTF-8
• $viewport : String (optional), default: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
• $keywords : Array of keywords or a comma-seperated string.
• $description : String
• $title : Page title

Navbar

The theme includes a navbar by default in the navigation section, (this can be overridden if desired)., _(*8)

To add menu items to the navbar simple create an array called $menu in the format as per the example below, _(*9)

$menu = [

    // Simple Links
    [
        'title' => 'Home',
        'url' => route('home')
    ],

    // Dropdowns
    [
        'title' => 'Pages',
        'links' => [
            'title' => 'SubPage',
            'url' => route('subpage.route')
        ]
    ]
];

The navbar also yields both 'navigation' and 'secondary_navigation' sections so you can also add custom html if desired., _(*10)

The default navbar also uses the navbar-brand class to display your brand, so in order for this to work you should make sure your data also includes the $brand varible (if not set the page will retrieve the value from the app.name config variable)., _(*11)