!!! DEPRECATED !!!

This package is no longer actively maintained. The next version of Laravel 5 should propably contain all basic stuff you need to start a admin panel., _(*1)

Firadmin

Laravel 4 package used to create a beautiful admin panel with default user managment. This package is currently under active development, following Laravel 4., _(*2)

, _(*3)

Features

Resourceful User management with roles permissions
Base controller use for admin panel development
ACL component for privilege management
Complete UI admin panel using Twitter Bootstrap 2.3
Complete login component with password reset and reminder
Easily configurable

Installation

For laravel 4.0 use firadmin version 1.0.* and for laravel 4.1 use firadmin version 1.1.* and above., _(*4)

Begin by installing this package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require firalabs/firadmin., _(*5)

{
    "require": {
        "firalabs/firadmin": "dev-master"
    }
}

Update your packages with composer update or install with composer install., _(*6)

Once this operation completes, you need to add the service provider. Open app/config/app.php, and add a new item to the providers array., _(*7)

Firalabs\Firadmin\FiradminServiceProvider

Screenshots

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Configurations

To configure the package to meet your needs, you must publish the configuration in your application before you can modify them. Run this artisan command., _(*9)

php artisan config:publish firalabs/firadmin

The configuration files could now be found in app/config/packages/firalabs/firadmin. Read the description for each configurations to know what you can override., _(*10)

Binding models

You need to bind a user and a user role model to your application. By default, the package already provide those. Add this few lines in app/start/global.php, _(*11)

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application IoC Container binding
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|*/
App::bind('Firalabs\Firadmin\Repository\UserRepositoryInterface', 'Firalabs\Firadmin\Repository\Eloquent\UserRepository'); //User model
App::bind('Firalabs\Firadmin\Repository\UserRoleRepositoryInterface', 'Firalabs\Firadmin\Repository\Eloquent\UserRoleRepository'); //User role model

After that, you must set the same user repository has a model in app/config/auth.php, _(*12)

'model' => 'Firalabs\Firadmin\Repository\Eloquent\UserRepository'

Migrations

If you use the default models provided in the package, you must run this migration commands., _(*13)

php artisan auth:reminders
php artisan migrate
php artisan migrate --package="firalabs/firadmin"

Create default user

You need to have at least one register user in your database. We provided a easy way to create a user using artisan command. Use --role=""administrator"" when setting up a user for the first time., _(*14)

php artisan create:user [--role[="..."]] username email password

You can also change the role names Firadmin checks on app/config/packages/firalabs/firadmin/config.php., _(*15)

'roles' => array(
    /*
     * Grant all privileges to the administrator roles.
     */
    'administrator'  => true,

    /*
     * Granted basics CRUD privileges to the user administrator role on the user resource.
     */
    'user_administrator' => array('user' => array('create', 'read', 'update', 'delete'))
)

Register dashboard controller

You must set a route to the dashboard admin panel in app/routes.php. We provide a default dashboard controller for testing purpose., _(*16)

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Register admin controllers
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
Route::group(array ('before' => 'auth', 'prefix' => 'admin' ), function ()
{   
    Route::get('/', 'Firalabs\Firadmin\Controllers\DashboardController@getIndex');
});

Facades

We have two available facades: * Permissions * AjaxRequest, _(*17)

You can add this facade to your app/config/app.php file., _(*18)

array(
    'aliases' => array(
        'AjaxRequest' => 'Firalabs\Firadmin\Facades\AjaxRequest',
        'Permissions' => 'Firalabs\Firadmin\Facades\Permissions'
    )
);

Permissions

To handle privileges on the current logged user, simply use this code in your controller action method.., _(*19)

//Check permission
if(Permissions::isAllowed(Auth::user(), 'user', 'read') !== true){
    return Redirect::route('login')
        ->with('reason', Lang::get('firadmin::admin.messages.insufficient-permission') . '<br>')
        ->with('error', 1);
}

Ajax Request

Documentation coming soon ..., _(*20)

Admin controller development

When you want to create a new admin controller, simply extend the BaseController provide in the package. Is a example of a dashboard controller create in the folder app/controllers/Admin/DashboardController.php, _(*21)

<?php

use Firalabs\Firadmin\Controllers\BaseController;

/**
 * Default dashboard controller
 */
class Admin_DashboardController extends BaseController {

    /**
     * The current active menu URI
     * 
     * @var string
     */
    public $active_menu = 'admin';

    /**
     * Get the dashboard
     */
    public function getIndex()
    {
        //Set layout content
        $this->layout->content = View::make('firadmin::dashboard');
    }
}