How do I add more social media icons?

[ozdemirburak]

How do I add more social media icons?

[ozdemirburak]

Firstly, create a migration for instagram or anything you want.

php artisan make:migration add_columns_to_settings_table

And configure it like below.

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;

class AddColumnsToSettingsTable extends Migration
{

    public function up()
    {
        Schema::table('settings', function(Blueprint $table) {
            $table->string('instagram');
        });
    }

    public function down()
    {
        Schema::table('settings', function(Blueprint $table) {
            $table->dropColumn('instagram');
        });
    }

}

Then migrate it as php artisan migrate.

After that, edit the SettingsForm located in app/Forms and add the part.

->add('instagram', 'text', [
    'label' => 'Instagram'
])

Finally, within your model Setting model, located as app/Setting.php, add the new field as below

protected $fillable = ['instagram', 'logo', 'email', 'facebook', 'twitter', 'analytics_id', 'disqus_shortname'];

Now you can change the instagram field from your settings within your admin panel and you can add it to resources/views/partials/menu/application.blade.php and place it where you like.

@if(!empty(Config::get('settings')->instagram))
   <li><a target="_blank" href="{{ Config::get('settings')->instagram }}"><i class="fa fa-instagram"></i></a></li>
@endif

[joaquintoral]

Wow. You made it easy for me to do! I have one question though. Why are the other fields written like this?
->add('twitter', 'text', [ 'label' => trans('admin.fields.setting.twitter') ])

in the SettingsForm file while the ne wone I added only had 'instagram' and nothing else?

[ozdemirburak]

It's because of the multi-language structure of the application. So it's up to you, to simplify this, I just wrote Instagram as the label. See the resources/lang/en/admin.php file. This is where the fields are stored. For instance, for Turkish, it's stored within the resources/lang/tr/admin.php file and so on. When you change the language, it searches for that field within that trans function.

[joaquintoral]

That makes enough sense! Thanks for your response! One more problem, at my home page, why am I seeing html tags?

[ozdemirburak]

It's because of the escaping the content. See the resources/views/application/home/index.blade.php. To allow the HTML tags change the part as below:

<div class="post-excerpt">
    {!! limit_to_numwords($article->content, 50)  !!}
</div>

[joaquintoral]

Awesome! But let's say I don't want to do that, how do I write the content properly if that's the case? Should I write a long first paragraph?

[ozdemirburak]

This is limiting the whole content to 50 number of words. You can change it, it's up to you so you don't need to write a long first paragraph.

[joaquintoral]

Thanks! You've been very helpful! :D

[ozdemirburak]

Welcome :)