Hello

At the moment I am trying to add projects to my website and I have difficulty understanding the backend & documentation. Bear with me I have a basic understanding of MVC (been following courses on treehouse and laracasts) and I'm sorry for the lack of structure in this post.

For my website I just want to be able to add projects in the backend and on the frontend view the latest projects i've been working on. for the backend I want an overview of these projects (real simple probably in a table or something akin) and then an add page(form). I assessed that a backend form is needed (for adding projects) with like basic details and that I need controller for routing, and maybe a component for displaying it on the frontend.

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Plugin file (tvanderv/projects/Plugin.php)

``<?php namespace Tvanderv\Projects;

use Backend; use System\Classes\PluginBase; use Controllers;

class Plugin extends PluginBase { public function pluginDetails(){ return [ 'name' => 'Personal Projects', 'description' => 'Voeg projecten toe aan de database', 'author' => 'USERNAME' 'icon' => 'icon-list', 'homepage' => 'http://github.com/test/' ]; }

/*public function registerComponents(){
    return [
        'tvanderv/projects/components/index'    => 'projectsIndex',
        'tvanderv/projects/components/add'      => 'addProjects',
        'tvanderv/projects/components/overview' => 'projectsOverview'

    ];

}*/

public function registerNavigation(){

    return [
            'label' => 'Project',
            'icon'  => 'icon-check',
            'url'   => Backend::url('tvanderv/projects/projects')
            ];
}

public function boot() {
             //what do i pass in here?

} }``

Projects.php(tvanderv\projects\controllers\Projects.php -> has a submap called projects (lowercase))

``<?php namespace Tvanderv\Projects\Controllers;

use Schema; use \Backend\Classes\Controller;

class Projects extends Controller {

/**
 * Return index view
 * And checks if database has a table called projects
 */
public function index() {
    if (Schema::hasTable('projects')) {
        $projects = DB::table('projects')->get();
        foreach($projects as $projectItem) {
            echo $projectItem;
        }

        }
    else {
        echo "No projects table found. Creating new table";
        Schema::create('projects', function ($table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('Naam', 60);
            $table->string('Beschrijving');
        });

    }
    }

}``

for the example above i'd think it would query the database and if not then add a table to the database. Perhaps it would be better to handle data in a model but i'm fairly new to MVC.

For the forms I came across this Backend form controller but I'm still unsure on how to knit everything together. What is the best way to make a add projects form, an overview page and then pass data into a component which I can call within a page.

Kind regards

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