GitHub - yaapis/widget: Simple widget system for create awesome feature on blade templating Laravel 4

Simple widget system for create awesome feature on blade templating Laravel 4

Donation

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Installation

Open your composer.json file, and add the new required package.

  "pingpong/widget": "1.0.*"

Next, open a terminal and run.

After the composer updated. Add new service provider in app/config/app.php.

  'Pingpong\Widget\WidgetServiceProvider'

Done.

Example

Registering your widget

To register your widget, simply create a file widgets.php in your app folder and put your widgets code in that file. Like this.

laravel/
|-- app/
	|-- commands/
	...
	|-- views/
	|-- filters.php
	|-- routes.php
	|-- widgets.php
|-- bootstrap/
|-- vendor/

Simple Widget :

Widget::register('awesome', function(){

	return View::make('awesome');

});

Widgets with one or more parameters:

Widget::register('hello', function($name){

	return "Hello, $name !";

});

Widget::register('box', function($title, $description){

	return View::make('widgets.box', compact('title', 'description'));

});

Widget grouping of widgets that have previously been defined.

// First, you must registering one or more widget

Widget::register('categories', function(){
	return View::make('widgets.categories');
});

Widget::register('latestPost', function(){
	return View::make('widgets.latestPost');
});

// Next, you can group some widgets like this:

Widget::group('sidebar', array('categories', 'latestPost'));

Widget::group('footer', array('hello', 'box'));

Calling your widget

Globally calling the widget just like below:

Widget::awesome();

Widget::hello('Jhon');

Widget::box('Latest News', 'This is a description of latest news');

// calling widget group just like below
// Widget::$name();
Widget::sidebar();

// calling widget group which parameters just like below
// Widget::$name($params1, $params2, $params3, ....);
Widget::box(array('name'), array('My Tweets', '.....Latest Tweets'));

simple calling widget on view :

@awesome

@hello('John')

//calling group widget

@sidebar()

@box(array('name'), array('My Tweets', '.....Latest Tweets'))

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license