Dru^ID CMS

What is Dru^ID CMS?

Dru^ID is meant to be a light Content Management System build on top of a Laravel application. You can install it in an existing Laravel project without breaking everything or start with a fresh installation. This is more a toolbox for developers rather than a one click install CMS with a billion themes and plugins.

Essentially out of the box you'll get a Filament based admin panel where you can edit.

• Pages
• Posts
• Navigation menus
• Reusable blocks

You'll also find helpers and services to manage multilingual and navigation menu features in your codebase.

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.2
• Laravel >= 10
• Composer 2
• MariaDB / MySQL
• Laravel Filament 3.x
• Filament Curator

Installation

⚠️ In order to install Dru^ID CMS, you first need to have a Laravel Filament running installation with the Filament Curator admin.

Please follow the installation process

• For Filament here: https://filamentphp.com/docs/3.x/panels/installation
• For Curator here: https://github.com/awcodes/filament-curator

composer require webid/druid"

php artisan druid:install

Create a first admin

php artisan filament:install --panels
php artisan make:filament-user

https://filamentphp.com/docs/3.x/panels/installation

Open the app/Providers/Filament/AdminPanelProvider.php file and add the following code after $panel->default()->id('admin')

->discoverResources(
        in: base_path('vendor/webid/druid/src/Filament/Resources'),
        for: 'Webid\\Druid\\Filament\\Resources'
    )
    ->discoverResources(in: app_path('Filament/Resources'), for: 'App\\Filament\\Resources')
    ->discoverPages(
        in: base_path('vendor/webid/druid/src/Filament/Pages'),
        for: 'Webid\\Druid\\Filament\\Pages'
)

Customize the config/cms.php file specially if you need to enable the multilingual feature. It's better to choose the default language before writing content.

Load the demo dataset

If you want to seed a demo dataset, simply run the following command in a fresh installation

php artisan druid:demo

The admin panel

Dru^ID has been built on top of the Filament package which means than by default, you'll find the administration panel to hte /admin route.

The Filament documentation will help you create your first admin if you're not already using it inside your project.

Once you're logged-in, you can create navigation menus, pages, posts, categories and reusable components.

Pages and posts

Pages and posts contents are based on a bunch of components such as Text, Text + Image, Separator, Quote etc. Some of them are included in the Dru^ID package itself, but you can easily create your own components using the Filament fields system.

Reusable components

When you need to display the exact same component in several contents for example a Call to action component, you can configure it one time and use it multiple times wherever you like afterward. This is what we call a reusable component.

Navigation menus

You can manually group and nest your contents inside navigation menus in the admin panel. You can choose between internal content (page and posts) and external URLs. You can nest your menu items up to 3 levels for advanced menus usage.

Druid Facade

Multilingual helpers

Function	Description
Druid::isMultilingualEnabled(): bool	Returns true if enable_multilingual_feature is set to true in config/cms.php
Druid::getDefaultLocale() : Langs	Return the default Lang Enum set in config/cms.php
Druid::getDefaultLocaleKey() : string	Same as previous but returns the local key
Druid::getLocales() : array	Returns an array of locale data defined in config/cms.php
Druid::getCurrentLocale() : Lang	Returns the current Lang chosen by the visitor
Druid::getLanaguageSwitcher() : Collection	Returns a Collection of links in different languages to switch to

Navigation menus helpers

Function	Description
Druid::getNavigationMenuBySlug(string $slug): Menu	Returns a Menu DTO with all the nested links details
Druid::getNavigationMenuBySlugAndLang(string $slug, Langs $lang) : Menu	Same as preview but with a given language

Settings helpers

Function	Description
Druid::getSettingByKey(string $key): mixed	Returns the value of a setting defined in the admin panel
Druid::getSettings(): Collection	Returns a collection of all settings defined in the admin panel
Druid::isSettingsPageEnabled(): bool	Returns true if the settings page is enabled
Druid::settingsPage(): SettingsInterface	Returns the settings page class used to build the form

Services

NavigationMenuManager

When you have configured your navigation menus in the admin panel, you can have access to it using the Webid\Druid\Services\NavigationMenuManager\NavigationMenuManager class as a dependency or using the navigation menu helpers described in the Helpers section.

Once you have your menu manager instance, you can request a menu by slug and lang using the following method.

$mainMenu = $menuManager->getBySlug('main');

If you use the multilingual feature, you can have the same menu slug for several language so you can use the getCurrentLocale() helper function to dynamize the method call.

$mainMenuInCurrentLanguage = $menuManager->getBySlugAndLang('main', getCurrentLocale());

Language switcher

When using the multilingual feature, you certainly need to display a language switcher component that helps redirecting users to the equivalent content in another language (only if this equivalent exists).

For that you can use the Webid\Druid\Services\LanguageSwitcher class as a dependency or use the getLanaguageSwitcher() helper described in the helpers section.

You'll get a collection of langs details with the current URL equivalent in other languages and a key to indicate the current language.

Rendering & Templating

Dru^ID enable by default a bunch of front-end routes to help you save some time

• The pages (Models/Page) detail view is accessible via the URL homepage/{the-page-slug} or homepage/{lang}/{the-page-slug} if the multilingual feature is enabled.
• The posts (Models/Post) detail view is accessible via the URL homepage/{blog-prefix}/{the-post-slug} or homepage/{blog-prefix}/{lang}/{the-post-slug} if the multilingual feature is enabled.

By default, these view are rendered with a basic Blade template that you can override in your project resources/views/vendor/druid directory You can also choose to render a JsonResource instead by changing the views.type param in the config/cms.php file.

Creating new component types

1. Create a class that implements the Webid\Druid\Components\ComponentInterface interface.
2. Add all methods required by the interface.
3. Register your component in the config/cms.php config file.

You can of course create a custom package that adds one or several components and give it to the community.

Extending default settings and Page/Post fields

Anywhere in your app (in a Service Provider, Middleware for example), you can override the default admin behaviour in terms of form fields

The following example will show you how to add an extra settings field

/** @var FilamentSettingsFieldsBuilder $fieldsBuilder */
$fieldsBuilder = $this->app->make(FilamentSettingsFieldsBuilder::class);

$fieldsBuilder->addField(
    TextInput::make('a_first_field') // A Filament field as explained in Filament documentation
        ->label(__('A first field'))
        ->required(),
    'a_first_field' // A key to help fields targeting
);

$fieldsBuilder->addField(
    TextInput::make('a_second_field')
        ->label(__('A second field'))
        ->required(),
    'a_second_field',
    'tabs.application', // Here we provide the target path structure where we want our field to show up
    // In the settings form, we have a tabs group named `tabs`. One of the tabs is named `application` 
    before: 'another_field' // We can specify a `before` or `after` param to put the new field in a specific spot
);

Tips to define a default homepage

We decide to not provide a default homepage route in the package because we think that it's better to let the developer choose the way to define it. Here is a simple way to define a default homepage route in your routes/web.php file.

You can use the Settings model to store the homepage id and retrieve it in your controller.

    HomepageController.php

    public function index(): View
    {
        /** @var Settings|null $page */
        $page = Druid::getSettingByKey('homepage_id');

        if (is_null($page)) {
            abort(404);
        }

        $homepage = $this->pageRepository->findOrFail($page->value);

        if (Druid::isMultilingualEnabled()) {
            $homepage->loadMissing('translations');
        }

        return view('druid::page.page', [
            'page' => PageResource::make($homepage)->toObject(),
        ]);
    }


    routes/web.php

    Route::get('/', [HomepageController::class, 'index'])->name('homepage');

Scheduled Commands

Dru^ID comes with a scheduled command that check if articles have status scheduled_published and publish them if the publication date is reached.

To enable this feature, you need to add a schedule for this command :

druid:publish-scheduled-posts

Laravel 11 doc to add command to scheduler : https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/scheduling#defining-schedules

Credits

• Web^ID Team
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.