Laravel

Add new route

cd routes
vi web.php ( add POST/GET routes) based upon auth level (can)

Add route to navbar

vi resources/view/bin/layout/navbar.blade.php

Create controller file using artisan, name must match

cd app/Http/Controllers/
php artisan make:controller WhateverController
cd app/Http/Controllers/

Copy contents from a template controller like Holidays.php to the new file

Edit the new file and switch out template for actual names

Create the view (DT) file by copying from an existing file like holidays.blade.php:

cd resources/views/bin
cp holidays.blade.php $newfile
vi $newfile # make changes

Set up the database table

cd $home
php artisan make:migration create_tablename_table
cd database/migrations
Edit table adding fields; add generic fields include ../db.tpl
cd $home
php artisan migrate

To migrate fresh a single database table:
php artisan migrate:refresh --path=/database/migrations/fileName.php

Create $_POST handler method for holidays by editing the HolidaysController.php file

cd app/Http/Controllers/
vi your-controller-file
For format copy some contents from the NoteController.php file.

Create javascript file

cd resource/js/dt
cp holidays.js your-new-file.js
vi your-new-file
Make necessary changes

Copy devel resources to public resources

cd $home
npm run dev
If errors execute monitor script
npm run watch

Models

Models are only required if there will be database interaction.

Create a function like $colorpicker

php artisan make:model Webcolor (could have been colorpicker
vi app/DTE/CustomFunctions.php

private static $webcolors = null;
public static function getWebcolors() {
  if (static::$webcolors === null) {

    $data = Webcolor::select('color','hex')->orderBy('color','ASC')->get()->toArray() ;
    $colors = [];
    foreach ( $data as $hex) {
      array_push( $colors, ['label' => $hex['color'], 'value' => $hex['hex'] ]);
    }
    static::$webcolors = $colors;

  }
  return static::$webcolors;
}

Add function to your controller file. vi your_controller.
Under public function dashboardIndex() { add 2 lines:
- $colorpicker = CustomFunctions::getWebcolors ();
- return view('bin.webpages',compact('colorpicker'));
Add the resource to the view file, vision/resources/views/bin/webpages.blade.php
var colorpicker = @json ( $colorpicker );
Set it up in the .js file.

type: 'select',
options: colorpicker,

Create a function like $font_families from a foreach loop.

The getFontFamilies is more basic in that it creates the labels/values from an ordinary string be first turning the string into an array.

push changes to github

git status
git add -A
git commit -m "Write commit details"
git pull origin master (always commit before pull)
git push origin master
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