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A simple Blog Module for Laravel 5

Features

Create/update/delete posts.
Add different category of blog. Create blog in different category.
Bundled migration for building the database schema
Facebook API integration. Share/Like on Facebook.
Twitter API integration. Share on Twitter.
Google+ API integration. Share on Google+.
Infinite ajax scroller. No need to click on next page.
You can customise it as per your requirements.

Installation

Create a file called module.php inside the config directory. Add following code in module.php.

 return  [
     'modules' => [
        'Blog',
     ]
 ];
```

You can add more then one modules inside `modules` array.

Open up the file config/app.php and add 'App\Modules\ModulesServiceProvider', to the end of the providers array.
```
'providers' => [
    App\Modules\ModulesServiceProvider::class,
]
```
Create new folder called Modules inside app directory.

Add Blog folder inside Modules directory. App directory structure look like this:

   app/
   |---Modules
       |---Blog
           |---Assets
           |---Components
           |---Controllers
           |---Middleware
           |---Migrations
           |---Models
           |---Views
           |---BlogServiceProvider.php
           |---routes.php
       |---ModulesServiceProvider.php

Head to the Modules directory and add a file called ModulesServiceProvider.php
Run Migrations. For that use following command.
```
 $ php artisan migrate --path app/Modules/Blog/Migrations
```
(Role column will be added into your users table. That will be define which user has author/admin role. You can change table name as per your requirement.)

Add following methods into app/User.php

 /**
  * user has many posts
  * @return type
  */
 public function posts()
 {
     return $this->hasMany('App\Modules\Blog\Models\Posts', 'author_id');
 }

 /**
  * user has many comments
  * @return type
  */
 public function comments()
 {
     return $this->hasMany('App\Modules\Blog\Models\Comments', 'from_user');
 }

 /**
  * Check if user can post blog
  * @return boolean
  */
 public function can_post()
 {
     $role = $this->role;
     if ($role == 'author' || $role == 'admin') {
         return true;
     }
     return false;
 }

 /**
  * Check if user is admin
  * @return boolean
  */
 public function is_admin()
 {
     $role = $this->role;
     if ($role == 'admin') {
         return true;
     }
     return false;
 }

To set facebook API key open up Blog/Views/layouts/app.blade.php and set
```
 appId      : 'your app id',
```
in line number 8.
To get twitter count register your domain on any APIs which providers twitter count. Open up Blog/Views/posts/show.blade.php and set Provided path to
```
 data-via : 'Your domain path'
```
in line number 187.
For Routes you can add/update in Blog/routes.php (Blog module has its own routes.php so you can add/update routes here.)
Please run composer dump-autoload, if you come across any Class not found exceptions and you haven’t done anything wrong