Yii2-Start module Blogs-Category

Blogs-Category module for Yii2-Start application.

This Module allows creating categories for the Blog.

There is also a widget that allows you to filter the blog posts by categories for the frontend.

Does not require to change Blog Module!

About

Version: 0.9.1

Authors: Mefistophell Nill

TODO

public function setCategory()
{
    $post = Yii::$app->request->post('Blog');
    if (!$this->isNewRecord) {
        Yii::$app->db->createCommand()->update('{{%blogs_to_category}}', ['category_id' => $post['category'], 'blog_id' => $this->id], ['blog_id' => $this->id])->execute();
        return true;
    } 
}

The temporary decision. I shall be grateful for improvement.

public function afterSave($insert, $changedAttributes)
{
    parent::afterSave($insert, $changedAttributes);

    if (!$this->category) {
        $post = Yii::$app->request->post('Blog');
        Yii::$app->db->createCommand()->insert('{{%blogs_to_category}}', ['category_id' => $post['category'], 'blog_id' => $this->id], ['blog_id' => $this->id])->execute();
        return true;
    }
}

Requirements

This module is used with Yii2-Start application yii2-start.

Installation

Install via Composer

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require nill/yii2-blogs-category-module "dev-master"

or add

"nill/yii2_blogs_category_module": "dev-master"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Install from an Archive File

Download and extract the zip-file into the folder with your project

/my/path/to/yii2-start/vendor/nill/yii2_blogs_category_module

Configuration

• Add module to [backend] config section:

'blogs_category' => [
    'isBackend' => true
],

• Add module to [common] config section:

'blogs_category' => [
    'class' => 'nill\blogs_category\Module'
],

• Add the module to extensions in the top of the file "vendor\yiisoft\extensions.php":

'nill/blogs_category' =>
    array(
        'name' => 'nill/yii2-blogs-category-module',
        'version' => '0.1.0.0',
        'alias' =>
        array(
            '@nill/blogs_category' => $vendorDir . '/nill/yii2-blogs-category-module',
        ),
        'bootstrap' => 'nill\\blogs_category\\Bootstrap',
    ),

• Create a new table in your database from file: yii2_start_blogs_category.sql
• Add in table yii2_start_blogs column: name: category_id type: int(11). This can be done by running the query SQL:

ALTER TABLE yii2_start_blogs ADD category_id INT(11) NOT NULL; 

OR: Apply migration with console commands:

php yii migrate --migrationPath=@nill/blogs_category/migrations

Backend

For work of the module in the backend follows add it to the menu: vendor\vova07\yii2-start-themes\admin\views\layouts\sidebar-menu.php

[
    'label' => 'Blogs Category'),
    'url' => ['/blogs_category/default/index'],
    'icon' => 'fa-folder-open',
    'visible' => Yii::$app->user->can('administrateBlogs') || Yii::$app->user->can('BViewBlogs'),
],