Theme support for Laravel

Inspired by bigecko/laravel-theme. Themes are stored inside default laravel's resources folder

Requirements

This package requires PHP 7.3 or event 8.* and Laravel 8 or 9.

Currently, supported only for webpack with laravel-mix.

Installation

You can install this package via composer using:

composer require yaap/theme

or manually add line to composer.json

{
  "require": {
    "yaap/theme": "^4.0"
  }
}

Optionally, publish config using artisan CLI (if you want to overwrite default config).

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="YAAP\Theme\ThemeServiceProvider"

Configuration

Package config

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Path to directory with themes
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | The directory with your themes.
    |
    */

    'path' => base_path('themes'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Path to directory with assets build
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | The directory with assets build in public directory.
    |
    */

    'assets_path' => 'themes',

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | A pieces of theme collections
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Inside a theme path we need to set up directories to
    | keep "layouts", "assets" and "partials".
    |
    */

    'containerDir' => [
        'assets' => 'assets',
        'lang' => 'lang',
        'layout' => 'layouts',
        'partial' => 'partials',
        'view' => 'views',
    ],
];

Theme config

Config in theme folder

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Theme name
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Use in assets publishing etc.
    |
    */

    'name' => '%theme_name%',

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Inherit from another theme
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Set up inherit from another if the file is not exists.
    |
    */

    'inherit' => null,

];

Usage

Create theme with artisan CLI

The first time you have to create theme default structure, using the artisan command:

php artisan theme:create default

In order to seed webpack.mix.js with custom rules add --with-mix option

php artisan theme:create default --with-mix

To delete an existing theme, use the command:

php artisan theme:destroy default

Structure

Here is an example of the folder structure of project with theme

project-root
├── app/
<...>
├── public/
|   ├── index.php
|   └── themes/
|       └── default/
|           ├── js/
|           |   └── app.js
|           ├── css/
|           |   └── styles.css
|           └── images/
|               └── icon.png
├── resources/
<...>
├── themes/
|   ├── default/
|   |   ├── assets/        
|   |   ├── lang/        
|   |   ├── layouts/
|   |   ├── partials/
|   |   ├── views/
|   |   |   └── hello.blade.php
|   |   └── config.php
|   ├── admin/
|   ├── views/
|       ├── emails/
|       |   └── notify.blade.php
|       └── hello.blade.php

Init theme

Theme::init($name)

This will add to views find path:

• themes/{$name}
• themes/{$name}/views

Lang files will be added as well:

• themes/{$name}/lang

Making view

View::make('hello');
View::make('emails.notify');

Assets

Use laravel mix for assets.

In header

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ mix('/themes/default/css/app.min.css') }}"/>

and in footer

<script type="text/javascript" src="{{ mix('/themes/default/js/app.min.js') }}"></script>

Blade templates

@extends('layouts.master')

@include('partials.header')

@section('content')
    <section id="main">
        <h1>HOME</h1>
    </section>
@stop

@include('partials.footer')

Fallback capability

You still able to use default View::make('emails.notify') which is stored outside the themes directory.

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License

MIT license.