Aimeos Laravel package

The repository contains the web shop package for Laravel 5 integrating the Aimeos e-commerce library into Laravel. The package provides controllers for e.g. faceted filter, product lists and detail views, for searching products as well as baskets and the checkout process. A full set of pages including routing is also available for a quick start.

Installation or update

This document is for the latest Aimeos Laravel 2016.04 release and later. Current versions are:

Stable: ~2016.07
LTS: ~1.2

If you want to upgrade between major versions, please have a look into the upgrade guide!

The Aimeos Laravel web shop package is a composer based library that can be installed easiest by using Composer. Add these lines to your composer.json of your Laravel project:

    "prefer-stable": true,
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "require": {
        "aimeos/aimeos-laravel": "~2016.07",
        ...
    },
    "scripts": {
        ...
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "php artisan vendor:publish --tag=public --force",
            "php artisan vendor:publish",
            "php artisan migrate",
            ...
        ]
    }

Afterwards, install the Aimeos shop package using

composer update

Caution: Make sure that the database is set up and it is configured in your config/database.php or .env file (depending on the Laravel version). Sometimes, the .env files are not available in the Laravel application and you will get exceptions that the connection to the database failed. In that case, add the database credentials to the resource/db section of your ./config/shop.php file too!

Next, the Aimeos provider class must be added to the providers array of the config/app.php file so the application and Laravel command task will work:

return array(
    'providers' => array(
        ...
        Aimeos\Shop\ShopServiceProvider::class,
    ),
);

In the last step you must now execute these artisan commands to get a working or updated Aimeos installation:

php artisan vendor:publish
php artisan migrate
php artisan aimeos:setup --option=setup/default/demo:1
php artisan aimeos:cache

In a production environment or if you don't want that the demo data gets installed, leave out the --option=setup/default/demo:1 option.

Note: For Laravel 5.1 the routes section in your config/shop.php must be changed like this because in 5.1 there's no middleware group "web" as in 5.2:

	'routes' => array(
		'login' => array(),
		'admin' => array('middleware' => array('auth')),
		'account' => array('middleware' => array('auth')),
		'default' => array(),
		'confirm' => array(),
		'update' => array(),
	),

Setup

To see all components and get everything working, you also need to create your main Blade template in resources/views/app.blade.php. This is a working example using the Twitter bootstrap CSS framework:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" class="no-js">
<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
@yield('aimeos_header')
	<title>Aimeos on Laravel</title>

	<link href='//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,300' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
@yield('aimeos_styles')
</head>
<body>
	<nav class="navbar navbar-default">
	<div class="container-fluid">
			<div class="navbar-header">
				<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
					<span class="sr-only">Toggle Navigation</span>
					<span class="icon-bar"></span>
					<span class="icon-bar"></span>
					<span class="icon-bar"></span>
				</button>
				<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Laravel</a>
			</div>

			<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
				<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
					<li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
				</ul>

				<div class="navbar-right">
@yield('aimeos_head')
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</nav>
    <div class="col-xs-12">
@yield('aimeos_nav')
@yield('aimeos_stage')
@yield('aimeos_body')
@yield('aimeos_aside')
@yield('content')
	</div>

	<!-- Scripts -->
	<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/modernizr/2.8.3/modernizr.min.js"></script>
	<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
@yield('aimeos_scripts')
	</body>
</html>

Afterwards, you should clear the Laravel cache files. Otherwise, you might get an exception due to old cached data.

php artisan cache:clear

Then, you should be able to call the catalog list page in your browser. For a quick start, you can use the integrated web server that is available since PHP 5.4. Simply execute this command in the base directory of your application:

php -S 127.0.0.1:8000 -t public

Point your browser to the list page of the shop using:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/index.php/list

Caution: CSRF protection is enabled by default but for the /confirm and /update routes, you may have to disable CSRF if one of the payment providers is sending data via POST requests.

Note: Integrating the Aimeos package adds some routes like /list or /admin to your Laravel installation but the home page stays untouched!

Admin

To use the admin interface, you have to set up Laravel authentication first. Please follow the Laravel documentation to create the necessary code:

Note: You need a route for /login in Laravel 5.1 too!

Test if your authentication setup works before you continue. Create an admin account for your Laravel application so you will be able to log into the Aimeos admin interface:

php artisan aimeos:account --admin <email>

The e-mail address is the user name for login and the account will work for the frontend too. To protect the new account, the command will ask you for a password. The same command can create limited accounts by using "--editor" or "--api" instead of "--admin".

As a last step, you need to extend the boot() method of your App\Providers\AuthServiceProvider class and add the lines to define how authorization for "admin" is checked in app/Providers/AuthServiceProvider.php:

public function boot(GateContract $gate)
{
	// Keep the lines before

	$gate->define('admin', function($user, $roles) {
		return app( '\Aimeos\Shop\Base\Support' )->checkGroup( $user->id, $roles );
	});
}

If your ./public directory isn't writable by your web server, you have to create these directories:

mkdir public/files public/preview public/uploads
chmod 777 public/files public/preview public/uploads

In a production environment, you should be more specific about the granted permissions! If you've still started the internal PHP web server (php -S 127.0.0.1:8000 -t public) you should now open this URL in your browser:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/index.php/admin

Enter the e-mail address and the password of the newly created user and press "Login". If you don't get redirected to the admin interface (that depends on the authentication code you've created according to the Laravel documentation), point your browser to the /admin URL again.

Caution: Make sure that you aren't already logged in as a non-admin user! In this case, login won't work because Laravel requires to log out first.

Hints

To simplify development, you should configure to use no content cache. You can do this in the config/shop.php file of your Laravel application by adding these lines at the bottom:

    'madmin' => array(
        'cache' => array(
            'manager' => array(
                'name' => 'None',
            ),
        ),
    ),

License

The Aimeos Laravel package is licensed under the terms of the MIT license and is available for free.

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