Yii2 Multi Level Article Category Module ¶

Extention module for https://github.com/trntv/yii2-starter-kit article & article category system. Adds the ability to create a n+1 level navigation system of article categories.

Install ¶

Recommended way is with Composer.

• Run composer require davidjeddy/yii2-article-category on the terminal in your {project root}.
• OR add "davidjeddy/yii2-article-category": "dev-master@dev" to your projects composer.json and unpdate.
• Enbable the module in your apps config/web.config module list

$config = [
    'modules' => [
        ...
        'article-category' => ['class' => 'davidjeddy\articlecategory\Module'],
        ...
    ],
];

DB Migration ¶

1. cd {project root}
2. php ./console/yii migrate/up --migrationPath=@vendor/davidjeddy/yii2-article-category/migration

CRUD form fields ¶

1. Add a input field for the attribute 'order' to the article category CRUD form
2. Follow the directions to get trntv/yii2-file-kit installed and working properly
3. Add the CRUD form field element for thumbnail

    echo $form->field($model, 'order')->widget(
        \trntv\filekit\widget\Upload::className(),
        [
            'url' => ['/file-storage/upload'],
            'maxFileSize' => 5000000, // 5 MiB
        ]);
   

See ./docs/ArticleCategory.php for an example of the altered article-category model See ./docs/_form.php for example of CRUD form

TODO ¶

0.0.X : Add logic to display categories AND article per navigation level on each VW