README

Knowledge base management system.

It's a laravel package that allows you to install the knowledge base management system into your site:

Key features

Categories
Categories can have additional fields (text, textarea, number, select, date, checkbox)
When user creates the article, he should also fill all the additional fields that belong to the category
Search by article title and content and also by additional fields
Validation on additional fields
Pagination
Fully customizable as you have access to all the Vue components

Demo

Articles

Installation

Via Composer

$ composer require a1tem/knowledge-base
$ php artisan migrate

$ npm add babel-plugin-syntax-dynamic-import babel-plugin-syntax-jsx babel-plugin-transform-vue-jsx eslint eslint-loader eslint-plugin-vue laravel-mix-eslint vue-template-compiler --save-dev
$ npm add element-ui axios vue2-editor
$ npm install

Passport installation

We use Passport in order to perform the API calls, if you already use passport, just skip this part.

The full installation process can be found in the Passport Docs

After that just add to the Http/Middleware/EncryptCookies.php file:

protected static $serialize = true;

And add to the $except array 'knowledge-base/' of the Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php file:

    protected $except = [
        'knowledge-base/*'
    ];

Add this to your main blade file or to the views/layout/app.blade.php if it's not included yet.

<meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">

Usage

First of all we should publish all the package assets, to do so run this command in the console

$ artisan vendor:publish --provider="A1tem\KnowledgeBase\KnowledgeBaseServiceProvider"

The published components will be placed in your resources/js directory. Once the components have been published, you should register them in your resources/js/app.js file somewhere at the top section add:

require('./knowledge-base/knowledge-base');

After that run:

$ npm run dev

Use it with blade files

By default the module will work in NON_SPA mode, it means that you can use it directly by typing the url address:

To view all categories

/knowledge-base/view/categories

To view all articles

/knowledge-base/view/articles

You can find all the published view files in the resources/views/vendor/a1tem/knowledge-base folder and modify the style as you want.

Also you are able to modify the VUE files as well, to find them navigate to resources/js/knowledge-base/views folder.

Don't forget to rebuild the assets by running npm run dev after modifying the vue files.

Use it in the SPA applications

If you want to use this package in the SPA mode, you have to change in the knowledge-base/config.js file:

MODE: MODE_SPA

Then you have to include in your router file:

import { KNOWLEDGE_BASE_ROUTER } from './knowledge-base/knowledge-base-router';

export default new VueRouter({
  mode: 'history',
  linkActiveClass: 'active',
  routes: [
    {
      path: '/',
      component: Vue.component('Layout', require('./Layout.vue').default),
      children: [
        // Your routes here
      ].concat(KNOWLEDGE_BASE_ROUTER),
    },
  ],
});

You can examine the 'knowledge-base/knowledge-base-router.js' file and change it in the way that the best suited for your application.

Configuration

You can configure different aspects of the package, check config/knowledge-base.php file.

Testing

$ composer phpunit

or

$ vendor/bin/phpunit

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email artempetrusenko@gmail.com instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

Artem Petrusenko

Built with

Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans

VueJS - The Progressive JavaScript Framework

Element - A Vue 2.0 based component library for developers, designers and product managers

Vue2Editor - Vue.js editor for rich text editing built with Vue.js and Quill.js

License

Knowledge base system is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

a1tem / knowledge-base

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