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AlphaWidget — Widgets For Laravel 5

This is a very simple, easy to use Widget manager for Laravel 5

Installation

First, install the package via Composer.

in the config/app.php file, add the Service Provider

Then, register the alias :

And, lastly... publish the AlphaWidget configuration file to your config directory:

And you're ready to use AlphaWidget!

Walk Through

Now, when I said that this is a simple Widget manager, I meant it! It's as simple as registering a widget alias, and it's class inside the configuration file. Like this :

One note to take here before we move on, is that I'am only referencing the class name, not the complete namespace. And that's what the namespace field in the config/alphaWidget.php file is here for.

To shorten class names, put your desired namespace in the config file, just make sure that all of your widget classes declare that namespace, that's all!

And then, calling the widget is as simple as :

Now, what does that RecentUsers look like, I hear you say! It's a simple class implementing the AlphaWidget Contract (interface), stating that it must have the render method. That method, is responsible of rendering the widget contents.

One note to take here! Is that the render method, should return the contents, and NOT echo them out! Remember! No echo! Just return.

Another note

Passing Arguments To Widget Calls

You can of course, pass arguments to widget calls. Like this for example:

And then in your class:

Now! One last thing to note! Since all widgets are resolved through the Laravel's IoC container, you can type-hint any Laravel Service to be used in your Widget class!

Practical Example

An good example, would be fetching the 5 recently registered users.

And that's it really!

Contributing

Anything from bug fixes, improvements or anything similar! Pull requests are welcome! Just make sure to submit them to the develop branch, rather to the master branch, as this later only has production-ready code.

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Requires illuminate/support Version 5.0.*
illuminate/contracts Version 5.0.*
illuminate/container Version 5.0.*
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