Yii2 Articles

Yii2 Articles to create, manage, and delete articles in a Yii2 site.

• Create, edit and delete articles
• Article with attachments, image, gallery, hits
• Manage categories and subcategories
• Advanced Access Permission
• Approval
• Multi-Language with I18N
• Extra Field Management
• SEO Optimization

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

$ php composer.phar require cinghie/yii2-articles "*"

or add

"cinghie/yii2-articles": "*"

Configuration

1. Images folder

Copy img folder to your webroot

2. Update yii2 articles database schema

Make sure that you have properly configured db application component.
Make sure that you have an user with id=1.
Run the following command:

$ php yii migrate/up --migrationPath=@vendor/cinghie/yii2-articles/migrations

3. Set configuration file

Set on your configuration file, in modules section

'modules' => [ 

    // Module Articles
    'articles' => [
        'class' => 'cinghie\articles\Articles',
        'userClass' => 'dektrium\user\models\User',

        // Select Languages allowed
        'languages' => [ 
            "it-IT" => "it-IT", 
            "en-GB" => "en-GB" 
        ],          
        // Select Default Language  
        'languageAll' => 'it-IT',

        // Select Date Format
        'dateFormat' => 'd F Y',

        // Select Editor: no-editor, ckeditor, imperavi, markdown, tinymce
        'editor' => 'ckeditor',

        // Select Path To Upload Category Image
        'categoryImagePath' => '@webroot/img/articles/categories/',
        // Select URL To Upload Category Image
        'categoryImageURL'  => '@web/img/articles/categories/',
        // Select Path To Upload Category Thumb
        'categoryThumbPath' => '@webroot/img/articles/categories/thumb/',
        // Select URL To Upload Category Image
        'categoryThumbURL'  => '@web/img/articles/categories/thumb/',

        // Select Path To Upload Item Image
        'itemImagePath' => '@webroot/img/articles/items/',
        // Select URL To Upload Item Image
        'itemImageURL' => '@web/img/articles/items/',
        // Select Path To Upload Item Thumb
        'itemThumbPath' => '@webroot/img/articles/items/thumb/',
        // Select URL To Upload Item Thumb
        'itemThumbURL' => '@web/img/articles/items/thumb/',

        // Select Path To Upload Attachments
        'attachPath' => '@webroot/attachments/',
        // Select URL To Upload Attachment
        'attachURL' => '@web/img/articles/items/',
        // Select Image Types allowed
        'attachType' => ['jpg','jpeg','gif','png','csv','pdf','txt','doc','docs'],

        // Select Image Name: categoryname, original, casual
        'imageNameType' => 'categoryname',
        // Select Image Types allowed
        'imageType' => ['png','jpg','jpeg'],
        // Thumbnails Options
        'thumbOptions'  => [ 
            'small'  => ['quality' => 100, 'width' => 150, 'height' => 100],
            'medium' => ['quality' => 100, 'width' => 200, 'height' => 150],
            'large'  => ['quality' => 100, 'width' => 300, 'height' => 250],
            'extra'  => ['quality' => 100, 'width' => 400, 'height' => 350],
        ],

        // Slugify Options
        $slugifyOptions = [
            'separator' => '-',
            'lowercase' => true,
            'trim' => true,
            'rulesets'  => [
                'default'
            ]
        ],

        // Show Titles in the views
        'showTitles' => true,
        ],  
    ],

]

4. Other Configurations

To use easily this extension is strongly recommended install and config dektrium/yii2-user to manage user

Installation
Configuration

and dektrium/yii2-rbac to manage auth permission

Installation

5. Add your User as admin

INSERT INTO `PREFIX_auth_assignment` (`item_name`, `user_id`, `created_at`) VALUES
('admin', 'YUOR_USER_ID', 1451514052);

Override PREFIX_ with your tables prefix and YUOR_USER_ID with your user_id. For example:

INSERT INTO `auth_assignment` (`item_name`, `user_id`, `created_at`) VALUES
('admin', '1', 1451514052);

Advanced Template Recommended Configuration

Advanced Template recommended configuration

URL Rules

'components' => [

    // Url Manager
    'urlManager' => [
    'class' => 'codemix\localeurls\UrlManager',
    // All languages including the default language
    'languages' => ['it', 'en'],
    // The default language is now treated like any other configured language
    'enableDefaultLanguageUrlCode' => true,
        // Disable index.php
        'showScriptName' => false,
        // Disable r= routes
        'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
        // Disable site/ from the URL
        'rules' => [
            '<alias:index|about|contact>' => 'site/<alias>',
        '<id:\d+>/<alias:[A-Za-z0-9 -_.]+>' => 'articles/categories/view',
        '<cat>/<id:\d+>/<alias:[A-Za-z0-9 -_.]+>' => 'articles/items/view',
        '<tags>/<id:\d+>/<alias:[A-Za-z0-9 -_.]+>' => 'articles/tags/view'
        ],
     ],

],

Filters

If you have a Yii2 App Advanced (frontend/backend) you can exclude frontend actions

'modules' => [ 

    'articles' => [ 
        'class' => 'cinghie\articles\Articles',
        'as frontend' => 'cinghie\articles\filters\FrontendFilter',
    ]

],

Overrides

Override controller example, on modules config

'modules' => [ 

    'articles' => [ 
        'class' => 'cinghie\articles\Articles',
        'controllerMap' => [
            'items' => 'app\controllers\MyItemsController'
        ]
    ]

],

Override models example, on modules config

'modules' => [ 

    'articles' => [ 
        'class' => 'cinghie\articles\Articles',
        'modelMap' => [
            'Items' => 'app\models\MyItemsModel'
        ]
    ]

],

Override view example, on components config

'components' => [ 

    'view' => [
        'theme' => [
            'pathMap' => [
                '@cinghie/articles/views/items' => '@app/views/articles/items',
            ],
        ],
    ],

],

Override examples can be found on overrides folder

Users Auth

Articles Permissions

Categories Permissions

Tags Permissions

Users Types

The migrations add to the database 4 types of users:

1. Admin:
   • Can Create Categories
   • Can Publish Categories
   • Can Delete Categories
   • Can Update Categories
   • Can Index Categories
   • Can Create Articles
   • Can Publish all Articles
   • Can Update all Articles
   • Can Delete all Articles
   • Can Index all Articles
   • Can View all Articles
   • Can Create Tags
   • Can Publish Tags
   • Can Delete Tags
   • Can Update Tags
   • Can Index Tags
2. Editor:
   • Can Create Categories
   • Can't Publish Categories
   • Can't Delete Categories
   • Can Update Categories
   • Can Index Categories
   • Can Create Articles
   • Can Publish his Articles
   • Can Update all Articles
   • Can Delete his Articles
   • Can Index Articles
   • Can View all Articles
   • Can Create Tags
   • Can Publish Tags
   • Can Delete Tags
   • Can Update Tags
   • Can Index Tags
3. Publisher:
   • Can't Create Categories
   • Can't Publish Categories
   • Can't Delete Categories
   • Can't Update Categories
   • Can Index Categories
   • Can Create Articles
   • Can Publish his Articles
   • Can Update his Articles
   • Can Delete his Articles
   • Can Index his Articles
   • Can View all Articles
   • Can Create Tags
   • Can Publish Tags
   • Can Update Tags
   • Can Index Tags
4. Author:
   • Can't Create Categories
   • Can't Publish Categories
   • Can't Delete Categories
   • Can't Update Categories
   • Can Index Categories
   • Can Create Articles
   • Can't Publish his Articles
   • Can Update his Articles
   • Can't Delete Articles
   • Can't Index Articles
   • Can View Articles
   • Can Create Tags

LINKS

• Admin Panel: PathToApp/index.php?r=articles
• Admin Panel with Pretty Urls: PathToApp/articles
• Categories: PathToApp/index.php?r=articles/categories
• Categories with Pretty Urls: PathToApp/articles/categories
• Items: PathToApp/index.php?r=articles/items
• Items with Pretty Urls: PathToApp/articles/items
• Attachments: PathToApp/index.php?r=articles/attachments
• Attachments with Pretty Urls: PathToApp/articles/attachments
• Tags: PathToApp/index.php?r=articles/tags
• Tags with Pretty Urls: PathToApp/articles/tags