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Index

• Requirements
• Install
• Setup
• Usage
  • Manage pages
  • View pages
  • Generate a route based on a single page
• Change homepage
• Page restriction based host and/or locale
• Design
  • Using different layouts
  • Advanced layout configuration
  • Changing the "breadcrumbs" look
• Setup EasyAdminBundle to manage pages and categories in its back-end
• Configuration reference
• Changelog

Orbitale CMS Bundle

This bundle is a simple helper to create a very simple CMS based on a classic system with Pages and Categories.

Requirements

• PHP 7.0+
• Symfony 3.0+
• Doctrine ORM

Install

Require the bundle by using Composer:

Setup

Register the necessary bundles in your Kernel:

Import the necessary routing files.

Warning: Both Page and Category controllers have to be "alone" in their routing path, because there is a "tree" routing management. If you set the prefix as "/" or any other path you are already using, make sure that OrbitaleCmsBundle routes are loaded at the end of your routing file, or you may have some unexpected "404" or other errors, depending on the routes priority.
This is why we recommend you to load the CategoryController before the PageController, and let both routes config be the last ones of your routing.yml file.
Note: In technical terms, the whole URI is scanned, not a simple part of it, this is why it can analyze very deep URIs like /home/blog/parent-link/child-link/element, and check all pages/categories.

Example:

Create your entities

This bundle supports Doctrine ORM only.

In order to use it, you must create your own entities and configure the bundle with them.

Update your config:

Create the Page entity and add it to your config

Create the Category entity and add it to your config

Update your db schema

Update your database by executing this command from your Symfony root directory:

Usage

Manage pages

To manage your pages, you should use any back-end solution, like EasyAdmin (which we suggest) or SonataAdmin, or any other backend solution that can operate CRUD actions on entities. You must have configured it to manage at least the Orbitale\Bundle\CmsBundle\Entity\Page entity.

View pages

The PageController handles some methods to view pages with a single indexAction(), and the CategoryController uses its route to show all pages within a specified Category.

The URI for both is simply /{slug} where slug is the... page or category slug.

If your page or category has one parent, then the URI is the following: /{parentSlug}/{slug}.

You can notice that we respect the pages hierarchy in the generated url.

You can navigate through a complex list of pages or categories, as long as they are related as parent and child.

This allows you to have such urls like this one : http://www.mysite.com/about/company/team/members for instance, will show only the members page, but its parent has a parent, that has a parent, and so on, until you reach the "root" parent. And it's the same behavior for categories.

Note: this behavior is the precise reason why you have to use a specific rules for your routing, unless you may have many "404" errors.

Generate a route based on a single page

Note: This behavior also works for categories.

If you have a Page object in a view or in a controller, you can get the whole arborescence by using the getTree() method, which will navigate through all parents and return a string based on a separator argument (default /, for urls).

Let's get an example with this kind of tree:

Imagine we want to generate the url for the "Team" page. You have this Page object in your view/controller.

Or in a controller:

With this, you have a functional tree system for your CMS!

Change homepage

The homepage is always the first Page object with its homepage attribute set to true. Be sure to have only one element defined as homepage, or you may have unexpected results.

You can have multiple homepages if you add them restrictions based on host and locale (see next chapter).

Page restriction based host and/or locale

If you are hosting your application in a multi-domain platform, you can use the host attribute in your page to restrict the view only to the specified host.

It's great for example if you want to have different articles on different domains like blog.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com.

If you want to restrict by locale, you can specify the locale in the page. The best conjointed use is with prefixed routes in the routing file:

Design

OrbitaleCmsBundle has some options to customize the design of your simple CMS.

Mostly, you will take care of the layouts option (see next chapter), or the design option.

Using different layouts

Obviously, the default layout has no style.

To change the layout, simply change the OrbitaleCmsBundle configuration to add your own layout:

Without overriding anything, you can easily change the layout for your CMS!

Take a look at the default layout to see which Twig blocks are mandatory to render correctly the pages.

Advanced layout configuration

The basic configuration for a layout is to specify a template to extend.

But if you look at the Configuration reference you will see that there are many other parameters you can use to define a layout:

Prototype of a layout configuration:

• name (attribute used as key for the layouts list):
  The name of your layout. Simply for readability issues, and maybe to get it directly from the config (if you need it).
• resource:
  The Twig template used to render all the pages (see the above section)
• assets_css and assets_js:
  Any asset to send to the Twig asset() function. The CSS is rendered in the stylesheets block, and js in the javascripts block.
• host:
  The exact domain name you want the layout to match with.
• pattern:
  The regexp of the path you want to match with for this layout. It's nice if you want to use a different layout for categories and pages. For example, you can specify a layout for the ^/page/ pattern, and another for ^/category/. If you specify a very deep pattern, you can even change the layout for a single page!

Take another look on the config reference if you need to get the prototype defaults.

:warning: Warning! The first matching layout will be used, as well as routing would do, so be sure to configure them in the right order!
Empty values won't be taken in account.

Changing the "breadcrumbs" look

Under the design option, you have some that you can use to optimize the rendering of the breadcrumbs.

Basically, it will look like this:

Parent page > Current page

Note: The breadcrumbs wrapper already has id="breadcrumbs" on its tag.

• breadcrumbs_class:
  Changes the class of the breadcrumbs wrapper.
• breadcrumbs_link_class:
  Changes the class of any link in the breadcrumbs.
• breadcrumbs_current_class:
  Changes the class of the current page in the breadcrumbs (which is not a link).
• breadcrumbs_separator (default: ">"):
  Changes the default separator used. You can use anything, but mostly we see >, /, | or * on the web.
  Note: This character is escaped in twig, so do not use things like ← or the & sign will be replaced with & (as well as other characters).
• breadcrumbs_separator_class:
  You can specify a class for the separator (which is wrapped by a <span> tag), if you want to use special design or interaction on it.

Cache

If you want to cache your cms results, just activate it via the config:

It uses Doctrine Result Cache so you need to activate it:

You can read more about DoctrineCache here.

Setup EasyAdminBundle to manage pages and categories in its back-end

This configuration allows you to manage your pages and categories directly in the EasyAdminBundle way.

First, install EasyAdminBundle, and set it up by reading its documentation (view link above).

After you installed it, you can add this configuration to inject your new classes in EasyAdmin:

Configuration reference

Changelog

Go to the releases page to see what are the changes between each new version of Orbitale CmsBundle!