Installation

Require the package with Composer. The service provider is auto-discovered, and the packages Posts builds on — package-toolkit, enums, sluggable, media-library, likes, reports and approvals — install as dependencies and auto-discover too:

composer require roundly-consulting/posts-for-laravel

Migrations are publish-only: nothing is auto-loaded, so a bare php artisan migrate creates no tables until you publish them. Choose your key types first (see Key types) — the author column and the posts ids are typed when the migration runs:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="posts-migrations"

# The packages posts builds on are publish-only too:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="media-migrations"
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="likes-migrations"
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="reports-migrations"
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="approvals-migrations"

# Only if you turn on slug history (posts.slugs.history):
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="sluggable-migrations"

php artisan migrate

Slug indexes and locales

The posts, categories and tags migrations add one unique index per supported locale on slug. The locale list comes from sluggable-for-laravel — sluggable.locales.supported, or translatable-for-laravel’s locales when it is installed, else app.locale + app.fallback_locale — so set it before migrating. Locales you add later get their indexes with:

php artisan sluggable:indexes "RoundlyConsulting\Posts\Models\Post"
php artisan sluggable:indexes "RoundlyConsulting\Posts\Models\Category"
php artisan sluggable:indexes "RoundlyConsulting\Posts\Models\Tag"

On SQL Server, which sluggable cannot index, the index step is skipped and slug uniqueness stays application-level — the install does not abort. On PostgreSQL the translatable columns ship as jsonb and the slug indexes are expression indexes on slug->>'<locale>', so slug lookups and route binding use them.

Config and views

Both are optional. Publish the config to change defaults, and the views to restyle the rendered meta tags and JSON-LD:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="posts-config"
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="posts-views"

The package’s publish tags are posts-config, posts-migrations and posts-views.