News module for Yii2

News module for Yii2 advanced template.

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist snapget/yii2-news "*"

or add

"snapget/yii2-news": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Migrations

To apply module migrations run command

./yii migrate --migrationPath=@snapget/news/migrations

Configure application

Let's start with defining module in @common/config/main.php:

......
    'modules' => [
        'treemanager' =>  [
            'class' => '\kartik\tree\Module',
            // other module settings, refer detailed documentation
        ],
        'news' => [
            'class' => 'snapget\news\Module',
        ],
    ],
......

Note: Module requires \kartik\tree\Module, so your configuration should looks like above.

Restrict access to admin controller from frontend. Open @frontend/config/main.php and add following:

'modules' => [
    'news' => [
        // following line will restrict access to `admin-news-category` and `admin-news` controllers from frontend application
        'as frontend' => 'snapget\news\filters\FrontendFilter',
        'baseImageUrl' => 'http://news/upload/news',    // needs here absolute url
    ],
],

Restrict access to news controller from backend. Open @backend/config/main.php and add the following:

'modules' => [
    'news' => [
        // following line will restrict access to `news` controller from frontend application
        'as backend' => 'snapget\news\filters\BackendFilter',
        'baseImageUrl' => 'http://news/upload/news',    // needs here absolute url
    ],
],

Usage

Go to /admin-news-category route to manage news categories.

Go to /admin-news route to manage news.

Go to /news/news route to view frontend news view.