Creating modules

Modules in Mconsole are micro Laravel applications and have their own resources (controllers, routes, views, models, etc.). Mconsole installation requires only milax/mconsole-base-components package, wich have two modules News and Pages.

There are 3 module types:

• base - module installed from package manager
• custom - module created within laravel project
• extended - module installed from package manager and extended by custom module

How to create new modules

To create new custom module install Mconsole and then call artisan command: php artisan make:module {ClassName} - this command will create module inside /app/Mconsole/ directory.

If you wish to extend base module (for example Pages or News) use module name as class name: php artisan make:module Page.

To develop module package run: php artisan make:module --package, this will create module in /workbench directory, set namespaces to Milax\Mconsole instead of App\Mconsole, and generates composer.json inside module directory.

Module structure

Here an example structure of module called Test:

└── Test
    ├── assets
    │   ├── config
    │   ├── migrations
    │   ├── public
    │   │   ├── css
    │   │   ├── img
    │   │   └── js
    │   └── resources
    │       ├── lang
    │       │   ├── en
    │       │   └── ru
    │       └── views
    ├── bootstrap.php (required)
    ├── Http
    │   ├── Controllers
    │   │   └── TestController.php
    │   └── routes.php
    ├── Installer.php
    ├── Models
    └── Provider.php

• bootstrap.php is required, it contains all module info
• assets/public/\*/ you can store any assets structure, they all will be copied in /massets/modules/Test/*/ directory
• Installer.php is optional file, usually we use it as settings seeder
• Provider.php it's a Laravel Service Provider