This packages makes it possible to connect your Laravel app to Snowfire.
Add this to your composer.json
"snowfire/snowfire-app": "dev-master"
Add this to your service providers in config/app.php
'Snowfire\App\SnowfireServiceProvider'
Add this to your route middlewares in app/Http/Kernel.php
'snowfire' => 'Snowfire\App\Middleware\SnowfireMiddleware',
'snowfireAdmin' => 'Snowfire\App\Middleware\SnowfireAdminMiddleware',
Publish the config file
$ php artisan vendor:publish
Create the database table for snowfire installations
$ php artisan migrate
Add this to your DatabaseSeeder.php
$this->call('\Snowfire\App\Storage\Seeder');
If you have CSRF middleware activated in app/Http/Kernel.php open app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php and add the following to the handle method:
if ($request->header('User-Agent') == 'Snowfire')
{
return $next($request);
}There are two different ways to connect your app to Snowfire. As a link in the admin area and as a public action.
Lets say you have a list of events. A public action will be something like http://your-app.com/events/all which will render an HTML <ul> list. Then you will have an admin link from Snowfire to http://your-app.com/admin which will let users add/edit/remove events.
Start by adding your actions to config/snowfire_app.php
return [
'id' => 'demo_app',
'name' => 'Demo app',
'tab' => 'admin',
'actions' => [
'events' => 'action.events.index',
'event' => 'action.events.show',
]
];This config adds the admin link as a named route called snowfire.tab and a route for all events. Both tab and actions are optional (but you need one of them, right?)
// Admin routes
Route::group(['prefix' => 'admin/{snowfireAppId}', 'before' => 'snowfireAppAuth', 'namespace' => 'Admin'], function()
{
Route::get('/', ['as' => 'admin.index', function($appId)
{
return 'Admin for appId: ' . $appId;
}]);
});
// Action routes
Route::group(['namespace' => 'Action'], function()
{
Route::get('events', ['uses' => 'EventsController@index', 'as' => 'action.events.index']);
Route::get('events/{id}', ['uses' => 'EventsController@event', 'as' => 'action.events.show']);
});This creates an admin route and the public action. The admin route is behind a snowfireAppAuth filter which makes sure the user is logged in and trusted.
Login to Snowfire and install the app (System -> Apps)
http://your-hosted-app.com/snowfire/install
Create a new snippet with this code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<snippet>
<name>All events</name>
<html><![CDATA[
{ com_application2 (
id: '{{ component_id_0 }}',
description: 'Demo App',
app: 'demo_app',
action: 'events',
debug: 'true'
) }
]]></html>
</snippet>Warning: Adding applications to the root / (i.e the home page) is currently not supported. Please create a sub page to add your app.
Now just add the snippet to a page and it will show you a list of events.
When you are working in an action that will be rendered within Snowfire, you need to use:
<a href="{{ Snowfire::route('my.route') }}">A linked route</a>This will make sure the links works from within Snowfire.