Laravel 5 Themes

• Installation
• Usage
• Get All Themes
• Set Active Theme
• Get Current Theme
• Check Theme
• Set Themes Path
• Get Themes Path
• Get Theme's Path
• Get Theme's View
• Get Theme's Lang
• Get Theme's Config
• Artisan Commands
• theme:make
• theme:list
• theme:cache
• theme:publish

Installation

Open your composer.json file, and add the new required package with:

"lchoate/themes": "~2.0"

Next, open a terminal and run:

composer update

Next, Add new service provider in config/app.php.

'Pingpong\Themes\ThemesServiceProvider',

Next, Add new aliases in config/app.php.

'Theme' => 'Pingpong\Themes\ThemeFacade',

Next, publish the package's assets.

php artisan vendor:publish

Now you're done.

Usage

Get all themes.

Theme::all();

Set theme active.

Theme::set('default');
Theme::setCurrent('default');

Get current theme active.

Theme::getCurrent();

Check theme.

Theme::has('simple')
Theme::exists('other-theme');

Set theme path.

$path = public_path('themes');
Theme::setPath($path);

Get theme path.

Theme::getThemePath('default');

Get themes path.

Theme::getPath();

Get view from current active theme.

Theme::view('index');
Theme::view('folders.view');

Get translation value from active theme.

Theme::lang('group.name');

Get theme's config value from active theme.

You can set theme related variables in the theme config file. You'll find a var for both the public path and an asset path Setting a key/value. (note that as of v2 the config file doesn't pick up your theme's name, so you could end up interrogating the wrong theme)

[
    'key' => 'value',
    'another_key' => [
        'subkey' => 'value',
        ],
    'public_path'   => '/themes/default/',
    'asset_path'    => '/themes/default/',
]

To read the configurations values from your theme file:

Theme::config('key'); 
Theme::config('another_key.subkey');
Theme::config('another_key.subkey','Set a default value if you want');

You can also get config value from other theme.

// current theme

Theme::config('key');

// from other theme

Theme::config('bootstrap::key');

Artisan Commands

Generate a new theme.

php artisan theme:make foo

Show all available themes.

php artisan theme:list

Cache all themes.

php artisan theme:cache

Publish all theme's assets from all themes.

php artisan theme:publish

Publish all theme's assets from the specified theme.

php artisan theme:publish theme-name