laravel4cookbook

File-Based CMS
October is a Laravel-based, pre-built CMS which was recently announced. I have yet to see the
code powering what looks like a beautiful and efficient CMS system. So I thought I would try to
implement some of the concepts presented in the introductory video as they illustrate valuable tips
for working with Laravel.
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The code for this chapter can be found at: https://github.com/formativ/tutorial-laravel-4-filebased-cms
Installing Dependencies
We’re developing a Laravel 4 application which has lots of server-side aspects; but there’s also an
interactive interface. There be scripts!
For this; we’re using Bootstrap and jQuery. Download Bootstrap at: http://getbootstrap.com/ and
unpack it into your public folder. Where you put the individual files makes little difference, but I
have put the scripts in public/js, the stylesheets in public/css and the fonts in public/fonts. Where
you see those paths in my source code; you should substitute them with your own.
Next up, download jQuery at: http://jquery.com/download and unpack it into your public folder.
On the server-side, we’re going to be using Flysystem for reading and writing files. Add it to the
Composer dependencies:
1 "require" : {
2 "laravel/framework" : "4.1.*",
3 "league/flysystem" : "0.2.*"
4 },
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This was extracted from composer.json.
Follow that up with: