A lightweight, flexible and utterly simple content management system plugin for Laravel.

For licensing, please see the included "LICENSE".

Installation is dead simple... it's 3 steps!

Clone the Slender Repo into your Laravel Bundles folder

git clone https://github.com/r3oath/slender.git slender

Let Laravel know about Slender by adding one line in the bundles.php file in the application/ directory.

return array(
    'docs' => array('handles' => 'docs'),
    // Add this line below.
    'slender' => array('handles' => 'slender', 'auto' => true),
);

Open up a console window and run

php artisan slender::setup:install

The console should output something similar too...

[*] Beginning Installation...
[-] Creating the DB migration.

    Migrated: application/2012_12_27_124224_create_slender_table

[-] Publishing Slender assets

Assets published for bundle [docs].
Assets published for bundle [slender].

[-] Installation Complete!

You're now ready to start using Slender!

To login and manage Slender tags, you'll need an existing user system. Your users table will require one additional field, this being

$table->boolean('slender_admin')->default(0);

Any user who has slender_admin equal to 1 (true) will be able to access the Slender dashboard.

Slender has various different content tag types. These include HTML, Text, JS (JavaScript/jQuery etc), CSS and Image. Place these tags in any spot you wish to pull in dynamic content.

{{ Slender::html('Home: Main Content', 'Some Description') }}

{{ Slender::text('Home: Sidebar Content', 'Some Description') }}

{{ Slender::js('Home: Menu Actions', 'Some Description') }}

{{ Slender::css('Home: Menu Styling', 'Some Description') }}

{{ Slender::image('Home: Product Image', 'Some Description') }}

Note that descriptions are optional, this is acceptable

{{ Slender::html('Home: Main Content') }}

If you'd like a tag to appear on multiple pages and not just the page it was created on, simply set the 3rd tag argument as 'true'. This sets the tag as global.

{{ Slender::html('Global: Footer', 'Some Description', true) }}

Once tags have been placed on a page, load the page in the browser to initialize them, no content will be displayed, this is normal.

Login to the Slender Admin area by adding /slender to the end of your domain.

http://<your-website>/slender

All initialized tags will be displayed on the dashboard. Click on a tag to begin editing the associated content. Click save to activate the tag. Saved tags will immediately start displaying their associated content.