bpocallaghan/laravel-admin-starter

A Laravel CMS Starter project with AdminLTE, Roles, Impersonations, Analytics, Activity, Notifications and more.

Laravel CMS Starter Project

Project is deprecated - please use https://github.com/bpocallaghan/titan-starter-website, _(*1)

A Laravel CMS Starter project with AdminLTE theme and core features., _(*2)

Preview project here - User: github@bpocallaghan.co.za - Password: github, _(*3)

What is New?

• titan-starter
• I have started from scratch an updated version. This version includes tests and Laravel 7 with Bootstrap 4.

Features / What it includes

• Admin LTE admin theme
• Members (website and admin users)
• Google Analytics Reports (with charts)
• Website Page Builder with 3 components (page content, photos, documents)
• Log Website Activities (if contact us was submitted, etc)
• Notifications (Laravel notifications)
• Log Admin Activities (when admin create,edit,delete a resource)
• Bootstrap Alerts and Form Error messages. bpocallaghan/alert
• Flash a Notification after a CRUD resource action. bpocallaghan/notify
• Generate crud resource, individual files. bpocallaghan/generators
• Impersonate any of your customers. bpocallaghan/impersonate
• Roles, Assign roles to the user and navigation to exlude navigation for a user.
• Manage Blog, Banners, FAQ, Photos.
• Reports with Chartjs

Setup (Basic)

• composer create-project bpocallaghan/laravel-admin-starter:dev-master laravel-admin-starter
• create your database
• setup your virtual host (example: http://titan.local)
• open .env and add database name and user
• open database\seeds\UsersTableSeeder.php and set your admin user credentials
• php titan:install` and complete the answers (setup app_name, app_author, app_url, etc)
• The above command will set .env values, but you can manually edit it before running titan:install

Setup (Advanced)

• complete basic setup
• config\app.php -> set timezone
• create FB Website App https://developers.facebook.com/
• create a mailgun account and set custom domain
• google captcha https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin#list
• google analytics account https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web
• google console developer account for google maps and google analytics API
  • https://console.developers.google.com
  • Enable the 'google analytics' API
  • Create api browser key for google maps
  • Get and Setup Laravel Analytics Laravel Analytics (Spatie)
    • create NEW service account key
    • any name will work (I use google analytics)
    • key type is JSON
    • download and rename the json to 'service-account-credentials.json'
    • store the file under /storage/app/analytics
    • go to (google analytics)[https://analytics.google.com/analytics/]
    • go to admin - property - user management and add the service account's email as a user
    • go to admin - view - settings and copy the 'site id' to your .env
• get a Google Maps js API key (after you've created the project in google) https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key
• have a look at Admin\NavigationController.php on how to use datatables and datatables with ajax if more than 150 entries

TODO

• Upcoming Changes and Features

Thank you

• All contributors
• ADMIN LTE.
• Thank you Taylor Ottwell for Laravel.
• Thank you Jeffrey Way for the awesome resources at Laracasts.

Note

• I hardly maintain this repository anymore as all my free time goes into the new version: titan-starter
• I do apologize about it (I still have live projects using this repository)

This is my starter project for most crud admin portals. I try to keep it clean, flexibly and friendly to use and to help the community. Please let me know about any issues or if you have any suggestions., _(*4)

Change log

Please see the CHANGELOG for more information about changes., _(*5)

My Packages Included

• File Generators Laravel 5 File Generators with config and publishable stubs
• Notify Laravel 5 Flash Notifications with icons and animations and with a timeout
• Alert A helper package to flash a bootstrap alert to the browser via a Facade or a helper function.
• Impersonate User This allows you to authenticate as any of your customers.
• Sluggable Provides a HasSlug trait that will generate a unique slug when saving your Laravel Eloquent model.