CakePHP Startup Blog

A CakePHP startup blog plugin for CakePHP2.0+

Purpose

• Targeted at startups that use cakephp 2.0+ and want a simple blog.
• We reference github.com/blog
• We borrowed heavily from Neil Crookes, at (https://github.com/neilcrookes/CakePHP-Blog-Plugin)

Features

• Blog posts ** Paginated across all filter types (see below) ** In/out RSS feed flag
• Filter by ** Categories (HABTM, hierarchy, only shows categories with posts in, displays number of posts in each category or one of its children) ** Year/month archive (based on created date/time, only shows months with posts in, grouped by year, displays number of posts in each month)
• RSS for all posts, or posts in a particular category
• Settings ** Meta title, description, keywords for the unfiltered list
• Authorship ** Integrate with user model to display authorship
• Integrated with ** TinyMCE
• What we don't have: ** Tags ** Sticky Posts ** Archives

Customisations

Create custom views in your app directory e.g. app/views/plugins/blog/blog_posts/index.ctp

Requirements

• CakePHP 2.0+ (so PHP5.2+)
• MySQL v4+
• CakePHP HABTM Counter Cache behavior (http://github.com/neilcrookes/CakePHP-HABTM-Counter-Cache-Plugin)
• TinyMCE Helper (https://github.com/CakeDC/TinyMCE)

Installation

git submodule add [email protected]:jacebeleren/startupblog.git app/Plugin/StartupBlog

or download from https://github.com/jacebeleren/startupblog

Route Configuration

You can include the following line in APP/Config/routes.php include APP.'Plugin'.DS.'StartupBlog'.DS.'Config'.DS.'routes.php';

or CakePlugin::loadAll(array('StartupBlog'=>array('bootstrap' => false, 'routes' => true)));

or CakePlugin::load('StartupBlog', array('bootstrap' => false, 'routes' => true));

Database Management

Run all the SQL scripts in StartupBlog/Config/Schema

Go to mydomain.com/blog

See:

• mydomain.com/admin/blog/posts for creating blog posts (and follow links to create the categories first)
• mydomain.com/admin/blog/settings for editing the settings (things like the index page title and RSS feed title etc)

(Requires your Routing.prefixes is includes 'admin')

Todo

• Custom blog post content implementations
• Improve the admin interface

All contributions welcome and will be attributed

Copyright

Copyright Oppoin.com 2013

License

The MIT License