How can i extend blog, default quarx module, by adding and displaying blog categories ?

[Mariana-Marica]

I need to add image, author, blog category, comments to blog, etc.
I am not sure what can i do to add blog categories (dynamically) to blog & display them, because:

• i need in admin panel (when creating/editing a blog) to have loaded all blog categories(in a select) that previously are defined in a new custom module; i tried to find a way by doing these:
  • add select directly in files from resources/views/vendor/quarx/modules but this means that after updating & publishing quarx, all modifs will be discarded;
  • try to add dynamically values to select config/quarx.php (this does not work because here is no database connexion) and cannot do this:

   'category' => [
              'type' => 'select',
              'options' => Quarx\Modules\Blogcategories\Models\Blogcategory::pluck('name', 'id')->toArray()
          ],
  

  • i ended up trying to override blog create method in a my blog controller, with the outcome of writing dynamically in config file the blog categories, but i can't override the create route for blog (to call method from my controller), as nothing happens:

 $blogCategories = Blogcategory::pluck('name', 'id')->toArray();
 $blogCategories->each(function($value, $key) {
             Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config::set('quarx.forms.blog.category.options', [$value, $key]);
         });

and

Route::group(['prefix' => 'quarx'], function () {
    Route::group(['middleware' => ['auth', 'quarx']], function () {
        Route::resource('blog', \App\Http\Controllers\Quarx\BlogController::class, ['as' => 'quarx', 'except' => ['show']]);
        Route::post('blog/search', 'BlogController@search');
        Route::get('blog/{id}/history', 'BlogController@history');
    });
});

• i also need to retrieve all blog categories for front display, thus using
  $blog = $this->blogRepository->findBlogsByURL($url);
  in show method from controller ; in this way i end up using BlogRepository from vendor and the method findBlogsByUrl returns blog or translated blog & also uses Blog vendor model which does not have the relation with custom module BlogCategories;

[mlantz]

You can essentially piggy back on Quarx within your app. This means you can create custom local Models ex. App\Models\Blog which would have your relations. You can then create a custom Controller, Repo, Service etc within your app and just extend the existing Quarx classes. This will let you take control of things but use what is prebuilt. You would then want to disable the default Blog module. I don't believe updating the package and using publish would overwrite your edits to the existing files either.