Installation

$ php artisan plugin:install Krisawzm.DemoManager

For security reasons, I only recommend setting up a demo site with this plugin in closed enviroments where this site is the only site on the server. You can easily and cheaply achieve this by using a service like DigitalOcean or Linode to create a VPS.

Features

Closed demo enviroments

When a new person hits your demo site, a new backend user will be created and signed in - automatically. No more demo usernames and passwords!

After that, a copy of the base theme will be made and named to correspond with the new user. Now, when the user views the demo site, he will be viewing his own version. If he makes any changes in the backend, only he will see those changes.

Keep in mind that if the plugin you're demoing relies on models or something similar, some of those things will be shared across demo users. Only files in the themes directory will be seperate for each demo user. Which is one of the reasons why occasionally doing a reset is a good idea.

Reset

This plugin provides a really simple way to reset everything (cache, migrations and old themes).

Simply run

$ php artisan demomanager:reset

to reset everything on the site.

Or set up scheduling by setting the reset_interval config to for example daily - this will automatically run the reset process every day. This requires you to set up Scheduling.

Configuration

Note: This documentation does not cover everything in the configuration. I highly recommend reading the config/config.php file for details.

base_theme

The base theme is the "original" theme. Demo user themes will be copied from this. Demo users will never be able to modify this theme.

admin

You can easily change the admin login and password by changing admin.login and admin.password.

Note: The admin login and password should ALWAYS be changed!

permissions

By default, demo users are granted no permissions. It's important you specify which permissions they should be granted if the plugin you're demoing require permissions.

'permissions' => [
    'rainlab.pages.manage_pages',
    'rainlab.pages.access_snippets'
],

The above example will grant demo users access to manage pages and access snippets in the Static Pages plugin.

lock_page

Before the reset process begins, a file named .krisawzm-demomanage-lock is put in the root directory of your project. Whenever this file is present, users will be shown a Please wait page.

Note: The lockfile is only removed if the reset process runs without any errors. If an error occurs, you will have to fix the error, remove the lockfile and re-run the reset command.

provisioners

Provisioners are used to feed the system additional data every time it has been reset. Provisioners can be thought of as seeders.

Let's say the plugin you're demoing requires an API key to interact with a third-party service, which is stored in a Settings Model, you can create a provisioner to provide the API key:

<?php namespace Author\Plugin\DemoProvisioners;

use Krisawzm\DemoManager\Classes\DemoProvisionerInterface;
use Author\Plugin\Models\Settings;

class SettingsProvisioner implements DemoProvisionerInterface
{
    public function run()
    {
        Settings::set('api_key', 'some-random-api-key');
    }
}

Register the SettingsProvisioner in the Configuration by referencing the fully qualifying class name:

'provisioners' => [
    '\Author\Plugin\DemoProvisioners\SettingsProvisioner'
]

I recommend creating a directory named demoprovisioners (note: should be lower case) in your plugin's root directory where you can keep your provision scripts.

Note: You should add a .gitignore file in demoprovisioners so it doesn't get pushed into your git repository.

Optionally, you could store the provision scripts elsewhere (just remember to change the namespace.)

limit

This feature enabled you to limit the number of users (or copies of the base theme) that are allowed at one time. The default is 500, but you should probably adjust this depending on resources such as disk space.

limit_action

When the limit is reached, you can select how it should be handled:

• reset: (Default) Runs the reset process automatically.
• nothing: The base theme will be used, but the user will not have access to the backend.
• maintenance: Display a page with the file name maintenance in the base theme.

License

MIT © 2016 Kristoffer Alfheim