crl/admin-bundle

Django style autogenerated admin interface from Doctrine ORM entities

symfony-admin

Installing the admin bundle.

Using Composer

The admin bundle should install as a bundle using composer. If you try to do this, I would appreciate your feedback. Composer does not run on the shared server where my development is hosted. It takes to long to run and the job gets aborted before completion., _(*1)

Manually adding

As an alternative to composer, use the following steps:, _(*2)

1) Place the CRL/AdminBundle directory with CRL rooted either in /Symfony/src or in /Symfony/vendor/bundles.  From the CRL directory, checkout into this directory by doing:

git clone https://github.com/charlar/symfony-admin.git/ AdminBundle

2) In Symfony/web/AppKernal.php, in register bundles add:

   new CRL\AdminBundle\CRLAdminBundle(),

 (depending on the version of symfony, you may have to manually edit the Autoloads file.

3) In routing.yml (or routing_dev.yml) add:
_admin:
    resource: "@CRLAdminBundle/Controller/AdminController.php"
    type:     annotation
    prefix:   /admin

Using the admin bundle

1) Navigate to /admin, you will get a list of Entities.
2) each data object will have a link to view structure, browse data and add.
3) if you browse data, you will get a list of data objects. the objects will be listed by id, or by the data returned from __toString(), if it is implemented on the Entity
4) clicking on the entity will allow you to edit it.
5) from the data object main page, clicking add, will allow you to create a new object

Configuration

No configuration is required. However you can add configuration to create browseing layouts for your entities. The is also a switch called hash to create shorter urls for your entites using hashes intead of hex encoded strings. The configurations are not currently used., _(*3)

Known Issues

1) If not all fields of your entity have a get function, Symfony will crash when you try to edit that entity.  (Fix added, but now crashes 2.0 symfony)
2) If you have a entity with a one-to-one or one-to-many relationship and the target entity does not have a __toString() function defined, Symfony will crash when you try to edit the primary entity.

Bugs:

This is a proof of concept, and certainly rife with bugs. Contributions are welcome. I wish a well developed version of this had been part of the standard Symfony distribution, like Django has a built in admin package., _(*4)