README

News management.

Installation

You need to require this package and enable the module in your configuration.

add to composer requirements in composer.json

"elitedivision/amos-news": "dev-master",

or run command bash:

composer require "elitedivision/amos-news:dev-master"

Enable the News modules in modules-amos.php, add :

 'news' => [
	'class' => 'elitedivision\amos\news\AmosNews',
 ],

add news migrations to console modules (console/config/migrations-amos.php):

'@vendor/elitedivision/amos-news/src/migrations'

If a frontend or a public site are used in your project and news need to be visible outside backend, enable form/wizard fields to allow publication in frontend/home page with params:

'news' => [
        'class' => 'elitedivision\amos\news\AmosNews',
        'params' => [
            'site_publish_enabled' => true,
            'site_featured_enabled' => true
        ]
    ],

The content is suitable to be used with cwh content management. To do so:

• Activate cwh plugin
• Open cwh configuration wizard (admin privilege is required) url: /cwh/configuration/wizard
• search for news in content configuration section
• edit configuration of news and save

If tags are needed enable this module in "modules-amos.php" (backend/config folder in main project) in tag section. After that, enable the trees in tag manager.

If platform uses report and/or comments and you want to enable News to be commented/to report a content, add the model to the configuration in modules-amos.php:

for reports:

 'report' => [
     'class' => 'elitedivision\amos\report\AmosReport',
     'modelsEnabled' => [
        .
        .
        'elitedivision\amos\news\models\News', //line to add
        .
        .
     ]
     ],

for comments:

  'comments' => [
    'class' => 'elitedivision\amos\comments\AmosComments',
    'modelsEnabled' => [
        .
        .
        'elitedivision\amos\news\models\News', //line to add
        .
        .
 	],
  ],

Configurable fields

Here the list of configurable fields, properties of module AmosNews. If some property default is not suitable for your project, you can configure it in module, eg:

 'news' => [
	'class' => 'elitedivision\amos\news\AmosNews',
	'validatePublicationDate' => false, //changed property (default was true)
 ],

• validatePublicationDate - boolean, default = true
  If this attribute is true the validation of the publication date is active.
  By default, you can ONLY validate news with publication_date greater or equal than TODAY.
  Set to false to allow validation for news with publication_date less than TODAY.

• filterCategoriesByRole - boolean, default = false
  If true, enables category role check via table news_category_roles_mm.
  By default news category are available to all users.
  In case categories are in association with rbac roles, populate table 'news_category_roles_mm' and set to true the Module property filterCategoriesByRole in configurations:

    'news' => [
      'class' => 'elitedivision\amos\news\AmosNews',
      'filterCategoriesByRole' => true
    ]

• hidePubblicationDate - boolean, default = false
  The news created are always visible, hide fields publication_from, publication_to

• newsRequiredFields - array, default = ['news_categorie_id', 'titolo', 'status', 'descrizione_breve']
  Mandatory fields in news form: by default news category, title and status are mandatory.
  If in your platform, for example, you don't want title to be a mandatory field, overwrite newsRequiredFields property as below:

  'news' => [
    'class' => 'elitedivision\amos\news\AmosNews',
    'newsRequiredFields' => ['news_categorie_id', 'status']  
  ],
  

• defaultCategory - integer The ID of the default category pre-selected for the new News

  'news' => [
    'class' => 'elitedivision\amos\news\AmosNews',
    'defaultCategory' => 3  
  ],
  

• autoUpdatePublicationDate - boolean, default = false
  This set the auto update of the publication date on the save if the news is published

  'news' => [
    'class' => 'elitedivision\amos\news\AmosNews',
    'autoUpdatePublicationDate' => true
  ],
  

• $enableCategoriesForCommunity - boolean, default = false

• $showAllCategoriesForCommunity - boolean, default = false
• $whiteListRolesCategories - default = ['ADMIN', 'BASIC_USER']