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Not actively developed. Base app to kickstart Laravel 4.2.x projects. LaraBase is a lightweight foundation for building apps with inbuilt Authentication, Blog, Bootstrap and other swappable components. The codebase is optimized for readability and to give you a great headstart for your projects. The codebase is by no means "pure" or "optimized".

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Request: Categories/Subcategories for Blog posts

connecteev opened this issue · comments

commented

Hi,

Love the elegance of larabase so far. I would love to see nested categories (categories and subcategories) in the blog, both for "clean" URLs for the end-user, and for SEO. Most blogs have this feature these days.

Details:

  • Categorizing Posts: When adding / editing a blog post, you can select the category (or sub-category) the post belongs to. (Ideally, a blog post can belong to multiple sub-categories, with a "default" subcategory tree. The blog URL would be based on the default sub-category tree.)
  • The front-end (blog URL) would use: /{category1}/{sub-category2}/{sub-sub-category3}/article1.htm
    Example: /getting-pregnant/trying-to-conceive/article1.htm /getting-pregnant/trying-to-conceive/article2.htm
    Optional / Advanced feature: The Back end could allow the admin to select URLs that are either flat, or nested. If 'flat' is selected for the URL structure, the front-end for the 3 examples above would have URLs like: /trying-to-conceive/article1.htm /trying-to-conceive/article2.htm In general: /{sub-sub-category3}/article1.htm
  • Managing Categories: A page in the admin lets you manage categories / subcategories...a hierarchical list of categories (so, you can add sub-categories to the tree). Nice to have: You can drag/drop categories and subcategories anywhere in the tree.
    (Step #3 is nice to haves a workaround, the admin could add the categories and subcategories to the database table directly)

The schema and sample data for categories would look something like this:
CREATE TABLE categories ( id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, id_parent int(10) unsigned DEFAULT NULL, name varchar(63) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL, url varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL, is_featured tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', is_active tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1', PRIMARY KEY (id) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=132 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

Hope this isn't too much information :) This would definitely push the project forward.

Best,
Kunal

commented

Closing this issue as blog posts can be categorized and tagged.

commented

Dont think they can be added to multiple categories..