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[Admin Panels](/categories/admin) 4. / 5. m4tlch/laravel-blog ActiveLibrary[Admin Panels](/categories/admin) m4tlch/laravel-blog =================== Simple blog (with admin panel) for Laravel based on webdevetc/m4blog v1.3.6(7y ago)016MITPHP Since Jan 11Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/m4tlch/laravel-blog)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/m4tlch/laravel-blog)[ RSS](/packages/m4tlch-laravel-blog/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced yesterday READMEChangelog (8)Dependencies (7)Versions (9)Used By (0) WebDevEtc M4Blog ================ [](#webdevetc-m4blog) Easy to install Laravel Package for adding a full blog (with admin backend) to your Laravel app ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [](#easy-to-install-laravel-package-for-adding-a-full-blog-with-admin-backend-to-your-laravel-app) ### 5 minutes to install! Quick and easy! [](#5-minutes-to-install-quick-and-easy) Introduction ------------ [](#introduction) This is [WebDevEtc's](https://nikacrm.com/) M4Blog package. It has everything you need to quickly and easily add a blog to your laravel app. FOR 5 MINUTE INSTALLATION GUIDE (with video guide), PLEASE VISIT [THE INSTALL GUIDE HERE](https://nikacrm.com/laravel/packages/m4blog-blog-system-for-your-laravel-app/help-documentation/laravel-blog-package-m4blog#install_guide) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [](#for-5-minute-installation-guide-with-video-guide-please-visit-the-install-guide-here) [Install guide](https://nikacrm.com/laravel/packages/m4blog-blog-system-for-your-laravel-app/help-documentation/laravel-blog-package-m4blog#install_guide) • [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/webdevetc/m4blog) << MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE INSTURCTIONS. They're simple, but must be followed. Features -------- [](#features) - Includes all views, routes, models, controllers, events, etc - Public facing pages: - View all posts (paginated) - View all posts in category (paginated) - View single post - Add comment views / confirmation views - Search (full text search), search form, search results page. - Admin pages: - Posts **(CRUD Blog Posts, Upload Featured Images (auto resizes)** - View all posts, - Create new post, - Edit post, - Delete post - Categories **(CRUD Post Categories)** - View all categories, - Create new category, - Edit post, - Delete post - Comments **(including comment approvals)** - View all comments, - Approve/Moderate comment, - Delete comment - Upload images - as well as uploading featured images for each blog post (and auto resizing to multiple defined sizes), you can upload images separately. - view all uploaded images (in multiple sizes) - **Includes admin panel** - Create / edit posts - Create / edit post categories - Manage (approve/delete) submitted comments - Allows each blog post to have featured images uploaded (you can define the actual dimensions) - in large, medium, thumbnail sizes - fully configurable via its `config/m4blog.php` config file. - **Includes all required view files, works straight away with no additional setup.** All view files (Blade files) use Bootstrap 4, and very clean HTML (easy to get your head around). You can easily override any view file by putting files in your `/resources/views/vendor/m4blog/` directory - **Built in comments (using the database)**, can auto approve or require admin approval (comment moderation). - Other options include using [Disqus](http://disqus.com/) comments or disabling comments. - Includes unit tests. - Fires events for any database changes, so you can easily add Event Listeners if you need to add additional logic. - **< 5 minute install time** and your blog is up and working, ready for you to go to the admin panel and write a blog post - see full details below, but this is a summary of the required steps: - install with composer, - do the database migration, copy the config file over (done with `php artisan vendor:publish`) - chmod/chown the `public/blog_images/` directory so featured images can be uploaded for each blog post - and then add 1 method to your `\App\User` file (`canManageM4BlogPosts()` - **but please see the install instructions to get everything up and working** What/who this package is for: ----------------------------- [](#whatwho-this-package-is-for) - For websites running Laravel (5.6) - Who want to have a site blog, and have an easy to use interface to write blog posts/assign categories/manage existing posts - Where only admin users can edit/manage the blog (this is not suitable for every user on your site to be able to manage posts) - Where you understand that posts can (potentially) contain JS or any other code, so you should only allow trusted admin users to add/edit/delete/manage the blog posts What this package is NOT for: ----------------------------- [](#what-this-package-is-not-for) - Sites where you want your (normal, non-admin) users to write blog posts. You must set `canManageM4BlogPosts()` on your user model to ONLY allow trusted users. Important notes --------------- [](#important-notes) 1. Anyone who can manage blog posts (defined by the `canManageM4BlogPosts()` method you add to your User model) can submit any HTML which is echoed out. This is a security issue. If you don't trust the content you should add a custom view and escape the blog content before echoing it, and set `use_custom_view_files` in the config to false. 2. if `use_custom_view_files` is enabled in the config (which it is by default), it means that any post with a custom view file set (details in the docs) can include any file within `/resources/views/custom_blog_posts`, which blade will execute. This package gives no method to edit any file within that directory though. How to install M4Blog to your laravel app ----------------------------------------- [](#how-to-install-m4blog-to-your-laravel-app) Please see our [M4Blog Laravel Blog Package Documentation/install guide](https://nikacrm.com/laravel/packages/m4blog-blog-system-for-your-laravel-app/help-documentation/laravel-blog-package-m4blog#install_guide) for install instructions. (It is very simple - done via composer/artisan commands, plus adding one method to your \\App\\User model (`canManageM4BlogPosts()` which should return `true` if this user can manage the blog). How to customise the blog views/templates ----------------------------------------- [](#how-to-customise-the-blog-viewstemplates) This is easy to do, and further detail can be found in our [M4Blog Laravel Blog Package Documentation](https://nikacrm.com/laravel/packages/m4blog-blog-system-for-your-laravel-app/help-documentation/laravel-blog-package-m4blog#guide_to_views). After doing the correct `vendor:publish`, all of the default template files will be found in /resources/views/vendor/m4blog/ and are easy to edit to match your needs. Routes ------ [](#routes) It will auto set all required routes (both public facing, and admin backend). There are some config options (such as changing the /blog/ url to something else), which can be done in the m4blog.php file. Config options -------------- [](#config-options) Please see the [M4Blog config option documentation here](https://nikacrm.com/laravel/packages/m4blog-blog-system-for-your-laravel-app/help-documentation/laravel-blog-package-m4blog#config_options) for details. All config options have comments which describe what they do. Please just refer to the `m4blog.php` file in your /config/ dir. Events ------ [](#events) You can find all the events that are fired by looking in the `/src/Events` directory. Add these (and an Event Listener) to your `EventServiceProvider.php` file to make use of these events when they fire. Built in CAPTCHA / anti spam ---------------------------- [](#built-in-captcha--anti-spam) There is a built in captcha (anti spam comment) system built in, which will be easy for you to replace with your own implementation. Please see [our Captcha docs](https://nikacrm.com/laravel/packages/m4blog-blog-system-for-your-laravel-app/help-documentation/laravel-blog-package-m4blog#captcha) for more details. TODO ---- [](#todo) This is a list of features or things that I want to eventually get round to adding - Better UI for uploading images/viewing uploaded images - Link uploaded images to blog post. At the moment they are not related. - Allow users to remove a featured image from a blog post. - Option to use HTMLPurifier to sanatise output. - Better options for assigning post authors (currently it just assigns the currently logged in user). However, if site has 10,000+ users do we really want an UI interface for this? The alternative is to add something like a a is\_admin field to the `users` table and only show admin users. - Possibly add tags (we already have categories) but I am not sure how useful they really are, given that we already have categories. - Pagination for comments on view single post? At the moment we limit it to a high number (default in config is 5000). - RSS feed: shows from full (stripped tags) ->html of blog post (although has a setTextLimit() on it) - need to trim this, and if it uses custom view files then it should render that (without html). - Email notification to admin when new comment is added - RSS to use generate\_introduction() for its contents. Recent changes: --------------- [](#recent-changes) 1. Added full text search and search views. You have to enable it in the config file (see latest config file) 2. Need more than the 3 default image sizes? Add more in the config/m4blog.php file, add the database column for it and it'll work! Having problems, something is not working? ------------------------------------------ [](#having-problems-something-is-not-working) *Image upload errors?* Try adding this to config/app.php: ``` 'Image' => Intervention\Image\Facades\Image::class ``` - Also make sure that /tmp is writable. If you have open\_basedir enabled, be sure to add :/tmp to its value. - Ensure that /public/blog\_images (or whatever directory you set it to in the config) is writable by the server - You might need to set a higher memory limit, or upload smaller image files. This will depend on your server. I've used it to upload huge (10mb+) jpg images without problem, once the server was set up correctly to handle larger file uploads. Version History --------------- [](#version-history) - 3.1 - minor fixes - 3.0.3 - fixed RSS feed cache issue - 3.0.2 - fixed default medium image size (changed to 600x400) - 3.0.1 - replaced all short tags (<?) with full opening ones (<?php) - 3.0 - Added separate functionality for uploading images (and save some meta data in db) - 2.1 - added 'short\_description' to db + form, and M4BlogPost::generate\_introduction() method will try and use this to generate intro text. - 2.0 - added full text search (enable it via the config file - it is disabled by default). - 1.2 - added WYSIWYG, few smaller changes - 1.1.1 - added basic captcha - 1.0.5 - composer.json changes. - 1.0 - First release - 0.3 - Small changes, packagist settings. - 0.1 - Initial release Issues, support, bug reports, security issues --------------------------------------------- [](#issues-support-bug-reports-security-issues) Please contact me on the contact from on [WebDev Etc](https://nikacrm.com/) or on [twitter](https://twitter.com/web_dev_etc/) and I'll get back to you asap. ### Health Score 28 — LowBetter than 54% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity6 Limited adoption so far Community7 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity66 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. 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