Yii2 Articles

Yii2 Articles to create, manage, and delete articles in a Yii2 site.

FEATURES

• Create, edit and delete articles
• Article with attachments, image, gallery, hits
• Manage categories and subcategories
• Advanced Access Permission
• Approval
• Multi-Language with I18N
• Extra Field Management
• SEO Optimization

CHANGELOG

• 0.0.7 - Added Image Upload for Categories
• 0.0.6 - Added Composer
• 0.0.5 - Fixed problem with Upload Image
• 0.0.4 - Added editors ckeditor, tinymce, markdown from other Packages
• 0.0.3 - Various Fix and Update for Categories Views
• 0.0.2 - Added multi-language with I18N
• 0.0.1 - Initial Releases

INSTALLATION USING COMPOSER

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

$ php composer.phar require cinghie/yii2-articles "dev-master"

or add

"cinghie/yii2-articles": "dev-master"

CONFIGURATION

• Copy images folder from docs to yor webroot
• Add in your configuration file, in modules section:

  'modules' => [ 
  ...
  	// Module Articles
  	'articles' => [
  		'class' => 'cinghie\articles\Articles',
  	// Select Languages allowed
  	'languages' => array_merge([ "en-GB" => "en-GB" ],[ "it-IT" => "it-IT" ]),			
  	// Select Editor: no-editor, ckeditor, tinymce, markdown
  	'editor' => 'ckeditor',
  	// Select Image Types allowed
  	'categoryimagetype' => 'jpg,jpeg,gif,png',
  	// Select Image Name: original, categoryname, casual
  	'categoryimgname' => 'categoryname',
  	// Select Path To Upload Category Image
  	'categoryimagepath' => 'images/articles/categories/',
  	// Select Path To Upload Category Thumb
  	'categorythumbpath' => 'images/articles/categories/thumb/',
  ],
  
  // Module Kartik-v Grid
  'gridview' =>  [
  	'class' => '\kartik\grid\Module',
  	
  	// array the the internalization configuration for this module
  	'i18n' => [
  		'class' => 'yii\i18n\PhpMessageSource',
  		'basePath' => '@kvgrid/messages',
  		'forceTranslation' => true
  	], 
  ],
  	
  // Module Kartik-v Markdown Editor
  'markdown' => [
  	'class' => 'kartik\markdown\Module',
  		
  	// array the the internalization configuration for this module
  	'i18n' => [
  		'class' => 'yii\i18n\PhpMessageSource',
  		'basePath' => '@markdown/messages',
  		'forceTranslation' => true
  	], 
  ],
  
  ...
  ]

• Create Database Tables running the file articles\docs\database_tables.sql. If you want use database prefix, edit the file sql adding the prefix and remember to set it in your config:

  'components' => [
  ...
  	'db' => [
              'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
              'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=YOURDBNAME',
              'username' => 'YOURDBUSER',
              'password' => 'YOURDBPSW',
              'charset' => 'utf8',
              'tablePrefix' => 'YOURPREFIX_',
          ],
  ...
  ]
  

LINKS

• Admin Panel: PathToApp/index.php?r=articles
• Admin Panel with Pretty Urls: PathToApp/articles
• Categories: PathToApp/index.php?r=articles/categories
• Categories with Pretty Urls: PathToApp/articles/categories
• Items: PathToApp/index.php?r=articles/items
• Items with Pretty Urls: PathToApp/articles/items

LIBRARIES NEEDED

• Yii2 Grid: https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-grid
• Yii2 Widget: https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-widgets
• Yii2 MarkDown: https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-markdown
• Yii2 CKEditor: https://github.com/2amigos/yii2-ckeditor-widget
• Yii2 TinyMCE: https://github.com/2amigos/yii2-tinymce-widget