Pages in Storyblok can be requested via their slug or UUID. If using the catch-all route we do the following:
public function show($slug = 'home')
{
return Storyblok::read($slug)->render();
}If you want to return the Page without rendering it just skip the render() method and it’ll give you the Page object.
$story = Storyblok::read('the-story-of-pusskin');You can also request stories by UUID:
$story = Storyblok::read('12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012');If you need to pass more data to blade just pass an array of variables to the render() method.
<?php
// EpisodeController.php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Storyblok\Folders\Episodes;
use Riclep\Storyblok\StoryblokFacade as StoryBlok;
class EpisodeController extends Controller
{
public function index() {
$folder = new Episodes();
$folder->slug('episodes');
return Storyblok::read('home')->render([
'episodes' => $folder->read(),
'some_data' => ['the', 'curiosity', 'of', 'a', 'child']
]);
}
}{warning} Remember to add your routes before the catch-all route if you’re using it or they’ll never be hit.
You don’t have to use the render() method, simply passing the Page object to a view will suffice.
<?php
// EpisodeController.php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Storyblok\Folders\Episodes;
use Riclep\Storyblok\StoryblokFacade as StoryBlok;
class EpisodeController extends Controller
{
public function index() {
return view('some.view', [
'my_story' => Storyblok::read('home'),
]);
}
}When you link to other stories using single or multi-option fields in Storyblok the JSON response will just return their UUIDs. If you want to include them in your response then you need to resolve the relationships. We make this really simple, just pass an array of relationships matching component_name.field_name to the read() method.
<?php
// EpisodeController.php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Riclep\Storyblok\StoryblokFacade as StoryBlok;
class EpisodeController extends Controller
{
public function show($slug)
{
return Storyblok::read($slug, ['component_name.field_name', 'hosts.profiles'])->render();
}
}If you’re not using a custom controller you can specify which relations you wish to resolve using the $_resolveRelations property on your Block. Simply create an array of the Storyblok fieldnames containing the relations you wish to resolve. They will be requested and converted into Blocks for you.
<?php
namespace App\Storyblok\Blocks;
use App\Storyblok\Block;
class Home extends Block
{
public $_resolveRelations = ['field_name'];
}{info} Using this mention of resolving relations will require additional API calls that using the controller method above as we can only request the relationships only after first requesting the initial content.
It’s also possible to automatically resolve relations. On any Block class set $_autoResolveRelations to true. It’s recommended to pass the array of relations to the read() method instead of autoresolving them as this minimising the API calls.
<?php
namespace App\Storyblok;
use Riclep\Storyblok\Block as BaseBlock;
class Block extends BaseBlock
{
public $_autoResolveRelations = true;
}{danger} It’s not recommended to set all Blocks to automatically resolve their linked stories as doing so could return a lot of deeply linked content or cause loops where Stories reference one another. Use with care!