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About

A page builder to integrate in a Symfony/Doctrine/Twig project.

Notice: this bundle is highly experimental, there may be important changes without warning.

Basic principles

A page is a set of lines which contain zones (think about the Bootstrap grid with rows and divs that cover columns).

Each zone can contain one or several blocks. A block is an instantiation of a widget. Widgets are a set of configurable elements.

A few widgets (button, image, horizontal line, text) are provided but you will need to implement your own based on the purpose of your application (custom videos, articles, etc.).

Installation

Require the bundle with composer:

composer require spyrit/page-builder-bundle

Storage

Ideally, we would like this bundle to be storage-agnostic.

For now, it has only been used with Doctrine, so you are encouraged to set up database, and the following entities Block, Page, Zone.

You can name those entities as you like. You can create specific entities or reuse ones from your project. You can make them use BlockTrait, PageTrait and ZoneTrait but you don't have to. But your entities must extend BlockInterface, PageInterface, ZoneInterface.

<?php

namespace App\Entity;

use App\Repository\BlocRepository;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Spyrit\Bundle\SpyritPageBuilderBundle\Model\BlockInterface;
use Spyrit\Bundle\SpyritPageBuilderBundle\Model\BlockTrait;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass=BlockRepository::class)
 */
class Block implements BlockInterface
{
    use BlockTrait;

    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     */
    private $id;

    public function getId(): ?int
    {
        return $this->id;
    }
}

You will have to implement the getConfiguration, setConfiguration and getWidget methods in your class to match your storage.

If you add custom widgets, you will also need to implement setWidget.

<?php

namespace App\Entity;

use App\Repository\PageRepository;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Spyrit\Bundle\SpyritPageBuilderBundle\Model\PageInterface;
use Spyrit\Bundle\SpyritPageBuilderBundle\Model\PageTrait;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass=PageRepository::class)
 */
class Page implements PageInterface
{
    use PageTrait;

    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     */
    private $id;

    public function getId(): ?int
    {
        return $this->id;
    }
}

<?php

namespace App\Entity;

use App\Repository\ZoneRepository;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Spyrit\Bundle\SpyritPageBuilderBundle\Model\ZoneInterface;
use Spyrit\Bundle\SpyritPageBuilderBundle\Model\ZoneTrait;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass=ZoneRepository::class)
 */
class Zone implements ZoneInterface
{
    use ZoneTrait;

    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     */
    private $id;

    public function getId(): ?int
    {
        return $this->id;
    }
}

How to use

Add a widget

Create a class that heritates from BaseWidget.
Create Twig templates for your widget (one editor template and one front template if needed)
Create your widget's form

Render (read only)

To display a build page (e.g. on a public route), you will need to call the renderPage method from the RenderManager service.

use Spyrit\Bundle\SpyritPageBuilderBundle\Manager\RenderManager;

public function show(Page $page, RenderManager $renderManager): Response
{
    return $this->render('render.html.twig', [
        'html' => $renderManager->renderPage($page),
    ]);
}

Where render.html.twig can mimic @SpyritPageBuilder/render/base.html.twig.

Render (editor)

To render the page builder (e.g. on a private route, for admins), you will need to call the renderPage method from the RenderManager service, with the second argument as true.

use Spyrit\Bundle\SpyritPageBuilderBundle\Manager\RenderManager;
use Spyrit\Bundle\SpyritPageBuilderBundle\Widget\Widget;

public function edit(Page $page, RenderManager $renderManager): Response
    return $this->render('editor.html.twig', [
        'html' => $renderManager->renderPage($page, true),
        'widgets' => Widget::CHOICES, // or plug here your custom list of Widgets
    ]);
}

Where editor.html.twig can mimic @SpyritPageBuilder/editor/editor.html.twig.

Styling the editor

You are encouraged to write your own CSS, but you can also use the provided page-builder.scss. To use it, add this to your webpack.config.js:

.addStyleEntry('css/page-builder', './vendor/spyrit/page-builder-bundle/src/Resources/public/css/page-builder.scss')

And in your editor page:

{% extends 'your_base_layout.html.twig' %}

{% block stylesheets %}
    {{ encore_entry_link_tags('css/page-builder') }}
{% endblock %}

{% block body %}
    <div class="page-editor">
        {% include '@SpyritPageBuilder/editor/editor.html.twig' %}
    </div>
{% endblock %}

{% block javascripts %}
    {{ include('@SpyritPageBuilder/editor/editor_js.html.twig') }}
{% endblock %}

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