How to create blog in 5 min using Laravel

Creating a blog is an easy task. Here there is step by step procedure to create a blog in 5 min using Laravel framework.

Create Laravel Project

Create new laravel project using bellow command

$ composer create-project laravel/laravel

Install CRUD Generator

In this example, we are using crudbooster.

install crudbooster

$ composer require crocodicstudio/crudbooster

Add the following class, to “providers” array in the file config/app.php

crocodicstudio\crudbooster\CRUDBoosterServiceProvider::class,

Create and set Up database in .env

DB_DATABASE=**your_db_name**
DB_USERNAME=**your_db_user**
DB_PASSWORD=**password**

Run the following command at the terminal

php artisan crudbooster:install

Create model and migrate the table

$ php artisan make:model Blog -mc

In your migration add below codes

 public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('blogs', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('title');
            $table->text('description');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

Now run migration command

$ php artisan migrate

Access the back end /admin/login

default email : admin@crudbooster.com
default password : 123456

Create Module for blog

Click on ‘Module Generator’ and select ‘Add New Module’.

fill the form

Table : blogs
Module name : Blog
Module Slug :blog

and navigate to step 2 make necessary changes, then move to step 3, change the type of description to ‘wysiwyg’ from drop down and save module.

Now we can add the new blog posts by clicking Blogs->Add Data

Create page to view Blogs

Here we gonna use Laravel inbuilt layout and pages.

$ php artisan make:auth

remove all the codes from routes/web.php and add the below route

Route::get('/','BlogController@index');

Add the codes in BlogController

 /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $blogs = Blog::latest()->paginate(5);;
        return view('home',compact('blogs'));
    }

Remove login and registration links from layouts/app.blade.php

Add the following code in home.blade.php

@extends('layouts.app')

@section('content')
<div class="container">
<div class="row justify-content-center">
<div class="col-md-8">@forelse($blogs as $blog)
<div class="card">
<div class="card-header">{{$blog->title}}</div>
<div class="card-body"><small>{{$blog->created_at}}</small> {!! str_limit($blog->description,40) !!}</div>
</div>
@empty
<p>There is no active post</p>
@endforelse</div>
</div>
</div>
@endsection

Our Blog is ready in 5 min