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#DEPRECATED. Use Contentful's official PHP SDK.

Laravel Contentful SDK and Toolkit

A Contentful SDK and suite of tools for Laravel. Includes facades, a base repository, out-of-the-box caching and cache management, webhook creation by artisan command and more.

###This is a Laravel package.

####Looking for the framework agnostic PHP SDK?

Click Here for my Contentful PHP SDK used by this package.

New to Contentful? Contentful is an API driven CMS. Check out their website and API documentation.

##Installation

Install via composer by running:

composer require "incraigulous/contentful-laravel:0.0.*"

Update composer:

composer update

Next, add the following to the service providers array in config/app.php:

'Incraigulous\Contentful\ContentfulServiceProvider',

##Configuration

Publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish

This will add contentful.php to your /config folder.

###Configuration Options

Key	Name	Description
space	Contentful API Space	Get this from the Contentful api panel
token	Contentful API Token	Get this from the Contentful api panel
oauthToken	Contentful oAuth Token	Needed for management SDK only
cacheTag	Cache Tag	To make sure we can target and clear only Contentful items
cacheTime	Cache Time	In minutes
WebhookUrlBase	Webhook URL Base	The default URL base to use for webhooks generated by artisan command*
WebhookUrlSuffix	Webhook URL Suffix	Will be appended to the webhook URL base

*In addition to URLs, WebhookUrlBase also takes keywords for custom URL generation. You may specify laravel to generate the URL from the app:url configuration setting or aws to generate the URL based on the AWS public host name.

####Obtaining your oAuth token

Instructions for generating an oAuth token can be found in Contentful's Management API documentation. If you are getting your key dynamically, you could create your own Facade for the Management SDK and load it there.

##How to use it

###Using the SDK

Adding the service provider will make two facades available:

Contentful: The content delivery SDK
ContentfulManagement: The management SDK

####Example calls using the content delivery SDK

The following call would get the first 10 entries for a content type with the word campus in the title.

$result = Contentful::entries()
				->limitByType('CONTENT TYPE ID')
				->where('fields.title', 'match', 'campus')
				->limit(10)
				->get();

The following call would get the first 5 assets with a file size greater than or equal to 350000 bites.

$result = Contentful::assets()
              ->where('fields.file.details.size', '>=', 350000)
              ->limit(5)
              ->get();

####Example calls using the management SDK

#####Creating a new content type:

$result = ContentfulManagement::contentTypes()
                ->post(
                    new ContentType('Blog Post', 'title', [
                        new ContentTypeField('title', 'Title', 'Text'),
                        new ContentTypeField('body', 'Body', 'Text'),
                    ])
                );
            );

#####Updating a content type

$contentType = ContentfulManagement::contentTypes()
					->find('CONTENT_TYPE_ID')
					->get();

$contentType['fields'][0]['name'] = 'Post Title';
$result = ContentfulManagement::contentTypes()->put('CONTENT_TYPE_ID', $contentType);

Click Here for the full SDK documentation.

####Caching All GET request results from the content delivery SDK are cached by default out of the box. GET request results from the management SDK are not cached to avoid update version conflicts.

####Clearing your Contentful cache via webhook You must have have provided your oAuth key in your contentful.php configuration file to create webhooks. To create a new webhook for the cacher to listen for use the Artisan command:

php artisan contentful:create-webhook

This will create a webhook in Contentful that will post to your /contentful/flush route on any content updates. The package provides that route for you automatically and will flush Contentful items from your cache any time that route is posted to.

Here's a trick: The /contentful/flush route takes get or post, so you can clear your cache anytime by going to /contentful/flush in your browser.

What if you want to specify a custom webhook URL? Easy:

php artisan contentful:create-webhook  --url='http://www.myurl.com/webhook'

Note: Caching only works if your using the Redis and Memcached cache drivers.

####Overriding CSRF Protection Laravel comes with cross site forgery protection, so you'll have to override it for the /contentful/flush route in order for the webhook to post to your site successfully. Here's a guide on how to do that.

####Listening for webhooks If you autoscale your servers, you may need the ability to automatically create a webhook when a server is created and remove it when the server shuts down. You can do this by running the following command via Supervisor.

php artisan contentful:listen

OR

php artisan contentful:listen --url='http://www.myurl.com/webhook'

###Contributing

See a typo or a bug? Make a pull request.
What a new feature? Make a pull request.
Want a new feature and don't know how to build it? You can always ask, I might be game if I think it's a good enough idea.

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