Brands // Laravel Shopper Docs

Most e-commerce sites sell products from several manufacturers. And each supplier can be represented by a brand.

Unless you make your own products, you should always register the brands of your products in Shopper.

If you sell your own products, you must at least create your company as a brand: this helps your customer find what they are looking for, and this can bring some valuable search engine points.

Overview

The management of brands is exactly the same as the one done in most of the e-commerce website creation tools: only the name can change. It is mainly used to facilitate the navigation of customers in your catalog, as it is increasingly common to search for a specific brand.

Brands

New brands are automatically activated and available for your online store, even if they do not contain any products yet. You must deactivate them so that they do not appear online.

Fields

The model used is Shopper\Framework\Models\Shop\Product\Brand.

Name	Type	Required	Notes
`id`	autoinc		auto
`name`	string	yes
`slug`	string	yes	Unique, default value is auto generated using brand name
`website`	string	no	Nullable
`description`	longText	no	Nullable
`position`	string	no	Default `0`
`is_enabled`	boolean	no	Default `false`
`seo_title`	string	no	Nullable, for seo title max length is 60
`seo_description`	string	no	Nullable, for seo description max length is 160

Hot Tip!

Models are customizable, and we recommend changing the Brand model when you configure your site.

To change the model you need to look at the configuration file config/shopper/system.php at the key models.

php return [ 'models' => [  /* * Eloquent model should be used to retrieve your brands. Of course, * it is often just the "Brand" model but you may use whatever you like. * * The model you want to use as a Brand model needs to extends the * `\Shopper\Framework\Models\Shop\Product\Brand` model. */  'brand' => \Shopper\Framework\Models\Shop\Product\Brand::class, // [tl! focus]  /* * Eloquent model should be used to retrieve your categories. Of course, * it is often just the "Category" model but you may use whatever you like. * * The model you want to use as a Category model needs to extends the * `\Shopper\Framework\Models\Shop\Product\Category` model. */  'category'  => \Shopper\Framework\Models\Shop\Product\Category::class, ] ];

1. Create your own model that you have to use

shell php artisan make:model Brand
Once the app/Models/Brand.php model is created in our app folder, we will make it extend from the Shopper\Framework\Models\Shop\Product\Brand model available in Shopper.

2. Extend our Brand model from the Brand Shopper Model

php namespace App\Models; use Shopper\Framework\Models\Shop\Product; class Brand extends Product\Brand { }

3. Update brand key for the model on the system.php config file to use our new model

php return [ 'models' => [  /* * Eloquent model should be used to retrieve your brands. Of course, * it is often just the "Brand" model but you may use whatever you like. * * The model you want to use as a Brand model needs to extends the * `\Shopper\Framework\Models\Shop\Product\Brand` model. */  'brand' => \App\Models\Brand::class, // [tl! focus]  /* * Eloquent model should be used to retrieve your categories. Of course, * it is often just the "Category" model but you may use whatever you like. * * The model you want to use as a Category model needs to extends the * `\Shopper\Framework\Models\Shop\Product\Category` model. */  'category'  => \Shopper\Framework\Models\Shop\Product\Category::class, ] ];

Components

Livewire components for managing brands are available in the component configuration file config/shopper/components.php.

use Shopper\Framework\Http\Livewire;
 
return [
    ...
 
      'livewire' => [
          ...
          'brands.browse' => Livewire\Brands\Browse::class,
          'brands.create' => Livewire\Brands\Create::class,
          'brands.edit' => Livewire\Brands\Edit::class,
 
          'tables.brands-table' => Livewire\Tables\BrandsTable::class,
          ...
      ];
 
      ...
];

For handling tables in Shopper, we use Laravel Livewire Tables package by Anthony Rappa.

Manage Brands

The brands are accessible via the Brands Menu on the left sidebar. The display page is rendered by the Livewire component Shopper\Framework\Http\Livewire\Brands\Browse and for the display of the brands table is the component Shopper\Framework\Http\Livewire\Tables\BrandsTable.

You can modify them in the component configuration file to use your own.

Create brand

Click on the "Create" button on the brands page, and a creation form appears.

Create brand

Save your changes in order to be taken back to the brand's list. Required fields are marked with an asterisk (*)

The SEO section allows you to define how your brand information should be displayed in search engines. To modify the content you click on the button "Edit SEO preview"

Brand SEO

By fill the data you will have a direct preview of the content.

Delete brand

To delete, deactivate or activate brands, you need to select the brand you want to delete and then click on the "Bulk Actions" button to choose the action you want to perform.

Delete brand

Retrieve Data

Once you have your brands and you want to display them in your store, you can retrieve them this way in your controller

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
 
use App\Models\Brand;
use App\Models\Product;
use Carbon\Carbon;
 
class HomeController extends Controller
{
    public function home()
    {
        $products = Product::with('categories', 'attributes')
          ->publish()
          ->take(8)
          ->get()
          ->map(function ($product) {
            $product['is_new'] = $product->created_at
              ->addDays(8)
              ->greaterThanOrEqualTo(Carbon::now());
 
            return $product;
        });
 
        return view('home', [
            'products' =>  $products,
            'brands' => Brand::query()->get()->take(12), 
        ]);
    }
}

Hot Tip!

Knowing that your brands can be displayed on several pages and places in your store, you can create a View Composer (read more about View Composer).

- Create your brand composer undo a custom folder app/View/Composers

php namespace App\View\Composers;  use App\Models\Brand; use Illuminate\View\View;  class BrandsComposer { public function compose(View $view) { $view->with('brands', Brand::enabled()->get()->take(12)); } }

- Then you have to add it in your AppServiceProvider

php namespace App\Providers;  use App\View\Composers\BrandsComposer; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View; use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;  class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider { public function boot() { View::composer('partials.brands', BrandsComposer::class); // [tl! focus] } }

And in your front-end you can browse your brands to have a display like this

Brands example list