ahzab / TypiCMS

Multilingual CMS built with Laravel 4.1

TypiCMS

TypiCMS is a multilingual content management system build with Laravel 4.1.
Bower and gulp are used for assets management and user interface is build with Bootstrap 3 with Less.

Demo

• Back-end (login: [e-mail], password: admin)
• Front-end

Table of contents

• Features
• Requirements
• Installation
• Configuration
• Modules
• Roadmap
• Contributing
• Testing
• Licence

Features

URLs

This kind of urls are managed by the CMS :

Modules:

• /en/events/slug-in-english
• /fr/evenements/slug-en-francais

Pages:

• /en/parent-pages-slug-en/subpage-slug-en/page-slug-en
• /fr/parent-pages-slug-fr/subpage-slug-fr/page-slug-fr

Patterns

• Repositories
• Cache decorator
• Form and validation services
• Presenters

Assets

• Gulp
• Bower
• Bootstrap 3

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.4.0
• MCrypt PHP Extension
• Memcached or APC

Installation

1. Download TypiCMS git clone git://github.com/sdebacker/TypiCMS.git mywebsite
2. Enter newly created folder cd mywebsite
3. Install dependencies with Composer : Composer install
4. Fill in your MySQL credentials in env.local.php
5. Rename env.local.php to .env.local.php : mv env.local.php .env.local.php
6. Create a new database with the name filled in .env.local.php
7. Migrate and seed Database : php artisan migrate --seed
8. Set permissions chmod -R 777 app/storage and chmod -R 777 public/uploads
9. Go to http://mywebsite.local/admin and log in with [e-mail] as email and admin as password.

Configuration

1. Set available locale and default locale in app/config/app.php
2. Set a new encryption key manually or with php artisan key:generate
3. Change cache prefix in app/config/cache.php
4. Cache driver is set to memcached, you can change it to apc in app/config/cache.php

Modules

Pages

Pages are nestable with drag and drop, on drop, uris are generated and saved in database. A page has routes for each translation.

Menus

Each menu have nestable entries. One entry can be linked to a module, page, URI or URL.

Projects

Projects have categories, projects urls follows this pattern : /en/projects/category-slug/project-slug

Categories

Categories has many projects.

Tags

Tags are linked to projects and use Select2 js plugin.
It has many to many polymorphic relations so it could easily be linked to other modules.

Events

Events have starting and ending dates

News

Simple news module

Contacts

Frontend contact form and admin side records management

Files

Files module allows you to upload multiple files linked to a resource. It uses DropzoneJS.
Thumbnails are generated on the fly with Croppa.

Users and groups

Sentry 2 is used to manage users, groups and permissions.
Users registration can be enable through the settings panel (/admin/settings).

Translations

Translations can be store in database through the admin panel (/admin/translations).
Each cell of the translation table is editable in place.

You can call DB translation everywhere with Lang::get('db.Key'), trans('db.Key') or @lang('db.Key').

Settings

Change website title, and other options trough the settings panel. Settings are saved in database.

Roadmap

• Improve user interface
• Make modules as packages
• Build more tests

Contributing

TypiCMS needs many improvements, some options are not yet implemented and some code need to be simplified and moved in separate classes.
TypiCMS follow PSR-2 standard.

Testing

Some admin controllers are actually tested, more tests needed.

License

TypiCMS is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.