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This package retrieve content from a Ghost blog and make it available as a regular model using Sushi.

The content will be kept in memory and reused anytime you call the model builder. It's not shared between requests.

I wrote this package because I built my custom blog on Laravel, with Laravel Nova. I like it for long articles but for journaling, I found the writing experience not so nice. With this package, I write in Ghost admin, but the content is still published via Laravel. 🏄‍♂️

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require julienbourdeau/laravel-ghost-connector

Add your Ghost credentials in our .env.

GHOST_API_URL=http://localhost:2369
GHOST_CONTENT_KEY=2b3934d798ccce67daacdc8adb

Usage

Here are a few simple example how you'd typically use this package. The following code will make one single HTTP call to Ghost.

Post::count();
Post::all()->map(function($x) {
    dump($x->title);
});
Post::where('featured', true)->get();

@foreach (Post::all() as $post)
  <h2>{{ $post->title }}</h2>
  <p>{{ nl2br($post->excerpt) }}</p>
  <hr>
@endforeach

Ghost API

When retrieving the posts from Ghost, the package will include tags and authors.

Content is also casted, using the regular $casts Model feature.

Example

This is the API response and the following is Post::first()->toArray().

array:34 [
  "id" => "5e80568dc50444aef65bea46"
  "uuid" => "97f42901-6b26-4a61-9ec6-96852d05e0f3"
  "title" => "Welcome to Ghost"
  "slug" => "welcome"
  "html" => "<h2 id="a-few-things-you-should-know"><strong>A few things you should know</strong></h2><ol><li>Ghost is
 designed for ambitious ... Blah blah blah"
  "comment_id" => "5e80568dc50444aef65bea46"
  "feature_image" => "https://static.ghost.org/v3.0.0/images/welcome-to-ghost.png"
  "featured" => false
  "visibility" => "public"
  "send_email_when_published" => false
  "created_at" => "2020-03-29T08:04:29.000000Z"
  "updated_at" => "2020-03-29T08:04:29.000000Z"
  "published_at" => "2020-03-29T08:04:35.000000Z"
  "custom_excerpt" => """
    Welcome, it's great to have you here.\n
    We know that first impressions are important, so we've populated your new site with some initial getting started posts that will help you get familiar with everything in no time.
    """
  "codeinjection_head" => null
  "codeinjection_foot" => null
  "custom_template" => null
  "canonical_url" => null
  "authors" => array:1 [
    0 => array:13 [
      "id" => "5951f5fca366002ebd5dbef7"
      "name" => "Ghost"
      "slug" => "ghost"
      "profile_image" => "https://static.ghost.org/v3.0.0/images/ghost.png"
      "cover_image" => null
      "bio" => "You can delete this user to remove all the welcome posts"
      "website" => "https://ghost.org"
      "location" => "The Internet"
      "facebook" => "ghost"
      "twitter" => "ghost"
      "meta_title" => null
      "meta_description" => null
      "url" => "http://localhost:2369/author/ghost/"
    ]
  ]
  "tags" => array:1 [
    0 => array:9 [
      "id" => "5e80568cc50444aef65be9e6"
      "name" => "Getting Started"
      "slug" => "getting-started"
      "description" => null
      "feature_image" => null
      "visibility" => "public"
      "meta_title" => null
      "meta_description" => null
      "url" => "http://localhost:2369/tag/getting-started/"
    ]
  ]
  "primary_author" => array:13 [
    "id" => "5951f5fca366002ebd5dbef7"
    "name" => "Ghost"
    "slug" => "ghost"
    "profile_image" => "https://static.ghost.org/v3.0.0/images/ghost.png"
    "cover_image" => null
    "bio" => "You can delete this user to remove all the welcome posts"
    "website" => "https://ghost.org"
    "location" => "The Internet"
    "facebook" => "ghost"
    "twitter" => "ghost"
    "meta_title" => null
    "meta_description" => null
    "url" => "http://localhost:2369/author/ghost/"
  ]
  "primary_tag" => array:9 [
    "id" => "5e80568cc50444aef65be9e6"
    "name" => "Getting Started"
    "slug" => "getting-started"
    "description" => null
    "feature_image" => null
    "visibility" => "public"
    "meta_title" => null
    "meta_description" => null
    "url" => "http://localhost:2369/tag/getting-started/"
  ]
  "url" => "http://localhost:2369/welcome/"
  "excerpt" => """
    Welcome, it's great to have you here.\n
    We know that first impressions are important, so we've populated your new site with some initial getting started posts that will help you get familiar with everything in no time.
    """
  "reading_time" => 1
  "og_image" => null
  "og_title" => null
  "og_description" => null
  "twitter_image" => null
  "twitter_title" => null
  "twitter_description" => null
  "meta_title" => null
  "meta_description" => null
  "email_subject" => null
]

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email julien@sigerr.org instead of using the issue tracker.

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