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Presentable - Another Presenter Bundle

Version: 1.0

Presentable provides a presentation layer designed for quick and easy implementation for typical Laravel applications.

You can see this bundle in use here: https://github.com/ShawnMcCool/laravel-io

History

1.0

• ripped off machuga's presenter bundle and added features that may or may not be good ideas.

Installation

Install with artisan

php artisan bundle:install presentable

or, clone the project into bundles/presentable.

Then, update your bundles.php to auto-start the bundle.

return array(
    'presentable' => array( 'auto' => true ),
);

Examples

Example Model

class Topic extends Eloquent
{
    public static function recent($count = 5)
    {
        return static::with('author')->order_by('created_at', 'desc')->take($count)->get();
    }

    public function author()
    {
        return $this->belongs_to('User', 'user_id');
    }

    public function tags()
    {
        return $this->has_many_and_belongs_to('Tag');
    }
}

Example Presenter

class TopicPresenter extends Presentable
{
    public $resource_name = 'topic';

    public function url()
    {
        return URL::to_action('topics@show', array($this->id, Str::slug($this->title)));
    }

    public function link($attributes = array())
    {
        return HTML::link_to_action('topics@show', $this->title, array($this->id, Str::slug($this->title)), $attributes);
    }

    public function published_date()
    {
        return date('d-m-y', strtotime($this->created_at));
    }
}

Example Controller

class Topics_Controller extends Base_Controller
{
    public function get_index()
    {
        $recent_topics = TopicPresenter::recent(100);
        
        $this->layout->content = View::make('topics.index')->with('recent_topics', $recent_topics);
    }
}

Example View

<h2>{{ $topic->link }}</h2>

Published: {{ $topic->published_date }}

<a href="{{ $topic->url }}">Link to the topic</a>