TypiCMS

TypiCMS is a multilingual content management system build with Laravel 4.2.
Bower and gulp are used for assets management and user interface is build with Bootstrap 3 with Less.

Demo

• Back-end (login: [email protected], password: admin)
• Front-end

Table of contents

• Features
• Requirements
• Installation
• Modules
• Facades
• 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

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 [email protected] as email and admin as password.

Bower & Gulp

You need to install Node.js, Bower and gulp, then cd to your website folder and run these commands:

1. Install bower packages (in app/assets/components): bower install
2. Install Gulp packages: npm install

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.

Facades

Five modules have their own Facade: News, Events, Projects, Places and Menus.

In your views, you can call for example News::latest(3) to get the three latest news. Check available methods in each module's repository.

Roadmap

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

Contributing

Feel free to fork and pull request !
TypiCMS follows PSR-2 standard.
TypiCMS needs improvements, some features are not yet implemented.

Testing

Some admin controllers are actually tested, more tests needed.

License

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