gus-costa / blog

My Laravel blog

Blog

A blog implemented on Laravel.

Environment Variables

You need to set these variables in order for it to work:

• FILESYSTEM_DRIVER: Default filesystem driver to store files. (public|cloudinary)
• IMAGES_FOLDER: Path inside the filesystem to store the files.
• CONTACT_TO: Destination e-mail of the contact form
• DB_CONNECTION: Database driver
• DB_HOST: Database host
• DB_PORT: Database port
• DB_DATABASE: Database name
• DB_USERNAME: Database username
• DB_PASSWORD: Database password
• MAIL_MAILER: Mail driver
• MAIL_HOST: Mail host
• MAIL_PORT: Mail port
• MAIL_USERNAME: Mail username
• MAIL_PASSWORD: Mail password
• MAIL_ENCRYPTION: Mail encryption

If you intend to store images on Cloudinary, set these to:

• CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME: Your cloud name
• CLOUDINARY_API_KEY: Your API key
• CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET: Your API secret
• CLOUDINARY_OVERWRITE: Ovewrite or not files when writing

Inserting the first user

After deploying the application, set a admin user like this:

php artisan tinker

then

DB::table('users')->insert(['name'=>'user_name','email'=>'user_email','password'=>Hash::make('password')])