README

Laravel Theme

This project is licensed MIT.

Laravel Theme by Momentum Studio is a package that allows the developer to create multiple sets of templates that can be switched at runtime. Allowing for users to set their own theme, or simply for trying out a new theme to a select few users.

• Adds your theme path to Laravel's default ViewFinder, making sure it can support other theme-related packages.
• Uses a simple Facade to set your current theme.
• Config overridable via environment variables or your own config file.

Installation & Usage

Requires

• PHP 7.2+
• Laravel 5.5+

Use Composer to install Laravel Theme as a dependency into your Laravel project:

composer require momentumstudio/laravel-theme

The package will automatically register itself. You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="MomentumStudio\LaravelTheme\LaravelThemeServiceProvider"

Alternatively, you can just set the environment variables in your .env file:

DEFAULT_THEME=default
THEMES_PATH=themes

This is the contents of the default configuration file:

return [

    /**
     * Set default theme to be chosen on startup
     * Set to `null` to use default views (resources/views)
     */
    'default' => env('DEFAULT_THEME', null),

    /**
     * Set the base directory to find themes
     */
    'path' => env('THEMES_PATH', base_path('themes')),
];

You can set default to null to keep using resources/views until you set otherwise at runtime. Good for importing this package into existing projects.

Then, to set a theme during runtime, call the provided Facade's set method:

\MomentumStudio\LaravelTheme\Facades\Theme::set('directory-name');

This will then search your themes path for templates matching the name when calling Laravel's view() (or equivalent).

For example, setting my theme to mytheme and calling view('my-view') will search themes/mytheme/my-view.blade.php first before reverting to resources/views/my-view.blade.php.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details about how you can help!