Manage Modules and Themes

Core Module

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• Install an existing module/theme
• Update a module/theme
• Download an existing Module
• Delete an existing Module

It's important to know that a module and a theme, is just a simple composer package. Meaning that if your module has a dependency on another package or AsgardCMS-module, you can add those in the require key of the composer.json file of your module.

This also means that modules fetched via composer, cannot be edited, those changes will get overwritten in the next composer update.

But how does AsgardCms know to put the modules in the Modules folder and themes in the Themes folder ?

It's pretty easy actually, just check the type key in your composer.json file.

• For modules: "type": "asgard-module",,
• For themes: "type": "asgard-theme",.

That's it, thanks to this, AsgardCms knows where to put those packages. Make sure your modules and themes have the correct type set.

In case you don't want to use composer to download a package in your project, scroll down to the Download an existing Module section.

Install an existing module/theme

Now that you know that a module or theme is a simple composer package, to install one on you AsgardCms project, just run the usual composer require vendor/name in your terminal.

If there are additional steps required to install the module, for instance running migrations, the module will have this stated in its readme.md file.

Running module migrations

To run the migrations of a module, run the following in your terminal:

php artisan module:migrate ModuleName

Running module seeds

Run the following command in your terminal:

php artisan module:seed ModuleName

Publishing module assets

Module assets are located in the Assets/ directory of the module. The have those copied in your public/ folder run the following command:

php artisan module:publish ModuleName

This will publish the module assets in the following directory:

public/modules/ModuleName

Publishing module translation files

Sometimes you'll want to change the copy of static texts of a particular module. If that module is a module fetched with composer, you have to treat that module as a composer package, meaning you cannot perform changes in that module, or those changes will get overwritten in the next composer update.

Module translation files can be published by running the following command in your terminal:

php artisan module:publish-translation ModuleName

This will publish the translation files in the following directory:

resources/lang/ModuleName

Update a module/theme

To fetch updates from a module or a theme you can run composer update.

Download an existing Module

This is an alternative way of downloading existing modules. This won't use composer, instead it will directly download and place the desired modules in the Modules/ directory. There are some advantages and disadvantages to doing it this way versus using composer.

Advantages to using composer:

1. Easy updates

Disadvantages to using composer:

1. Not easy to customise the module if needed, since any changes made, will be overwritten on your next composer update

Advantages to using download feature:

1. Customisable out of the box

Disadvantages to using download feature:

1. No version management with the original repository

After having downloaded a module, you can instantly start to customise it to your needs, and add it to your version control system.

Downloading a module

The download command is simple:

php artisan asgard:download:module vendor/name

Let's say you want to download the AsgardCMS/Contact module. Run this command to do so:

php artisan asgard:download:module asgardcms/contact

This will download the Contact module in your Modules/ folder.

Running migrations

php artisan asgard:download:module asgardcms/contact --migrations

Running seeds

php artisan asgard:download:module asgardcms/contact --seeds

Publishing module assets

php artisan asgard:download:module asgardcms/contact --assets

Of course all those options, can be specified together:

php artisan asgard:download:module asgardcms/contact --migrations --seeds --assets
# or
php artisan asgard:download:module asgardcms/contact --demo

Download a specific branch

The previous commands requires the wanted module to have a github release. This might not always be the case (though recommended). For this situation you can specify which branch to download using the --branch option

php artisan asgard:download:module asgardcms/contact --branch=master

This will not download the latest release, but instead the master branch.

Delete an existing Module

If you want to remove a module, you can use the following command:

php artisan asgard:delete:module ModuleName --migrations

This will remove the module's tables, and remove any user or role that had permissions for this module.