gourmet/dashboard

Dashboard plugin for CakePHP 3

Dashboard for CakePHP

Build beautiful dashboards for your cakes!, _(*1)

This is an unstable repository and should be treated as an alpha., _(*2)

, _(*3)

Requirements

• CakePHP 3.0.0 or greater.
• PHP 5.4.16 or greater
• SQLite or another database driver that CakePHP can talk to (defaults to SQLite).

Install

composer require gourmet/dashboard:*

or by adding this package to your project's composer.json:, _(*4)

"require": {
    "gourmet/dashboard": "*"
}

Now, enable the plugin in your bootstrap.php (including bootstrap and routes):, _(*5)

Plugin::load('Gourmet/Dashboard', ['bootstrap' => true, 'routes' => true]);

You will also need to symlink the assets:, _(*6)

To preview the sample dashboard, you will need to also copy some sample widgets to your app:, _(*7)

That's it! You can now access the sample dashboard at: http://localhost/gourmet/dashboard/index, _(*8)

Documentation

Database Configuration

By default, Dashboard will store event data into a SQLite database in your application's tmp directory. If you cannot install pdo_sqlite, you can configure Dashboard to use a different database by defining a gourmet_dashboard connecting in your config/app.php file., _(*9)

Widgets

Built-in Widgets

There are several built-in widgets, they are:, _(*10)

• Clock
• Comments
• Graph
• Iframe
• Image
• List
• Meter
• Number
• Text

Configuration

There is no configuration at this time. Options will be coming soon., _(*11)

Developing Your Own Widgets

You can create your own custom widgets for Gourmet/Dashboard. Until this is better documented, please refer to the sample widgets included., _(*12)

Credits

• Shopify/dashing - the Sinatra application this plugin replicates
• cakephp/debug_kit - the SQLite implementation