bpocallaghan/laravel-admin-starter

A Laravel Admin Starter project with Page Builder, Roles, Impersonation, Analytics, Blog, News, Banners, FAQ, Testimonials and more

Laravel CMS Starter Project

Project is deprecated - please use https://github.com/bpocallaghan/titan-starter-website

A Laravel CMS Starter project with AdminLTE theme and core features.

Preview project here

• User: [email protected]
• Password: github

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.

Change log

Please see the CHANGELOG for more information about changes.

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.

laravel-admin-starter's Issues

Missing Namespace and Use declaration in the Admin/General controller group

There was some missing and improper declaration of the Admin/General controller group generating 'Missing Controller Class Error'.

To correct the issue:
In the file: .../routes/web.php
Change line 132 to Route::group(['prefix' => 'general', 'namespace' => 'General'], function () {

And correct the header all of the Admin/General controller group files.
Proper namespace is for this group: namespace App\Http\Controllers\Admin\General;

And all of the controllers in this group should have a line before the starting Class declaration:
use App\Http\Controllers\Admin\AdminController;

image cannot load

great app and great work.

i installed this app on laravel 8, i try to upload image and succes, but image cannot load in the view. thx in advance

Error running php artisan db:seed on MacOs

This is possibly an issue on linux too where path uses forward slash (/). I add a var_dump and this is what I get:

Toms-MacBook-Pro:pledge tomn$ php artisan db:seed
Seeding: RoleTableSeeder
Seeding: UserTableSeeder
Seeding: BannerTableSeeder
Seeding: PageTableSeeder
string(69) "/Users/tomn/Desktop/work/brickinc/pledge/database\seeds\csv\pages.csv"

                                           
  [ErrorException]                         
  Invalid argument supplied for foreach()  
                                           

This happen on every seeders file that process CSVs. To temporarily resolve this issue, I updated this file: https://github.com/bpocallaghan/titan/blob/master/src/Helpers/helpers.php#L118

Like so:

    if (!file_exists($filename) || !is_readable($filename)) {
        $filename = str_replace('\\', '/', $filename);
    }
    
    if (!file_exists($filename) || !is_readable($filename)) {
        return false;
    }

I leave it to you to determine the best way to resolve this. Thanks.

Upgrade to Laravel 5.6

Maybe we should consider upgrading to Laravel 5.6. (I can submit a PR if you want)

Error on running the php artisan db:seed

Hi

I am stuck with the following error on running the php artisan db:seed

[BadMethodCallException]
Call to undefined method Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder::roles()

please help me out to resolve the issue

Setup google analytics for site .

• Any one can setup google analytics or have a articles for setup it ?
• Thank you !

Add Admin Navigation

Hi @truelogicapp

Thank your trying out this package.

You've created the new menu item (admin - settings - navigation)
Then the new menu item appeared on the left and you clicked on it... - and now the error...
I am sure you know this - but any admin navigation - needs a Controller / Model / Views and defined in the routes/web.php for it to work.

Only the Website's Pages - can be managed from the admin via the page builder...

Just want to check in before going further... :)

Impersonate Package Still Using App\User

First and foremost I would like to thank you for this wonderful project.

The impersonate package is using the namespace App\User instead of App\Models\User which results to an error. Kindly check this out and fixx it

Do you have any way to trigger your flash notifications from javascript.

Nice job. very nice work there.

What i want to ask, do you know of any way of modifying this flash library in a way so that it triggers the notification from js.

implement spatie/laravel-permission?

Hey, thank you so much for the great work, I wonder when can you implement spatie/laravel-permission package into the project.
thanks

Question

(newbs comment incoming)

Olla!. how can I override or display my own views on a newly added page on the admin and/or on the website?

Admin CRUD always acts on FAQ Categories

Hi, I am trying to use laravel-admin-starter, in an old 5.4 (dev-Laravel_5.4 Laravel_5.4) because I need to execute under PHP 5.6.4 due to my server limitation.

It run ok, but in admin mode, always it stay on Categories, FAQ Categories.

I selects on admin menu any option and always apears in breadcrumb, FAQ Categories. For example I selects from menu /admin/general/tags appears thes create Tags form and in the "+ Create" button appears "+ Create Category" if I clicks it, its invokes admin/general/tags/create but when I submits it, the system notifies me that a new FAQ Category was created. Yes! FAQ Category, no TAGS!

The same occurs with other options.

It is possible to correct that problem, in this old version?

Can anyone help me?

Do anyone have any suggestion?

TIA

How upload pictures in topic?

Why is there no button in the editor to load an image into an article? How to enable this feature? Thank.

Suggestion: Change Summernote for Toast.io

I've used Summernote a bit now, and I am not impressed for a few reasons:

• It does not allow me to use relative links, in both html or their built-in link builder
• It looks old and dated (ok, they have themes.. but still..)
• Development is a bit stagnant, It does not look like they are going be expanding or growing it much more than how it is today.

I've had a look for a replacement and found
Toast.io, and it looks as if it does all the things Summernote does, only it uses markdown instead of a html code editor.

I think that the majority of use-cases, WYSIWYG with Markdown would be better than WYSIWYG with
HTML.

It looks like it would pretty much be a drop-in replacement from what I can see. I'm not sure if there are any specific features in Summernote that makes it better.

Feature requests

Hello @bpocallaghan

I read on a previous issue that you want to rewrite the code from beginning.

After successfully installing the site in homestead, I came across some questions which you maybe can take notice off when rewriting the project.

• Loading time. Overall the site loads pretty fast, also admin. But sometimes it takes a bit when clicking on specific category or page. Is this normal and just the way laravel based sites loads? Or can it be made that it loads really fast. like click and 'bam' it's there (assuming that the content size is just normal of course).

• I like it that you have integrated a gallery system in the admin, however i miss the option that you can reorder the images after uploading. I like the function that you can just reorder the images by moving them around with your mouse.

• By the admin blog section. You have the gallery function on a different page. I prefer having everything on 1 page, so its faster to fill everything in and upload the images you want with the specific blog. Same as what you would have with a page when you add a gallery component it shows on the main edit page.

• When adding images on a blog gallery. Instead having to refresh yourself, it's maybe nice that it refreshes automatic so you can see the results immediately. (when i uploaded the images, i overread your description, and was confused first what to do as i didn't see a 'save' button only a go back button.)

• your overall site is pretty complete already. Both admin / front. The only main thing i miss is a search function in the front.

Maybe there are some more points which would be a nice extra feature but this is what i noticed when just checking it out.

But overall very good job on this admin package. The last week i have checked out many different packages (also big commercial ones) and all of them have their short comings. This is one of the nicest i came across.

navigation_admin not found

Hi ,
http://127.0.0.1:8000 = Works
http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin =Does not work

display error :
"Whoops. Navigation not found - please see if url is in database (navigation_admin"

thanks 👍

Not found Profile Page

After successful registration following error appears when the user directs #to My Account :

Symfony \ Component \ Debug \ Exception \ FatalThrowableError (E_ERROR)
Class 'App\Models\FAQ' not found

Details for the error as follows:

/home/bpocasgt/app/Http/Controllers/Website/Account/AccountController.php

<?php
 
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Website\Account;
 
use App\Models\FAQ;
use App\Http\Requests;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Controllers\Website\WebsiteController;
 
class AccountController extends WebsiteController
{
    public function index()
    {
        $faq = FAQ::whereHas('category', function($query) {  // FatalThrowableError :Line 14
            return $query->where('name', 'Account');
        })->orderBy('list_order')->get();
 
        return $this->view('account.account', compact('faq'));
    }
}

Arguments
"Class 'App\Models\FAQ' not found"

Api problem

Hi , i was testing your project all working fine and after few test i was checking the api and i see is not working so when i try route:list

C:\xampp\php\php.exe artisan route:list
"/"
"Whoops. Navigation not found - please see if url is in database (navigation_admin)"

Process finished with exit code 1 at 18:10:41.
Execution time: 1,413 ms.

and if i dump-autoload

C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin\composer.bat dump-autoload
Generating optimized autoload files
Warning: Ambiguous class resolution, "App\Events\ActivityWasTriggered" was found in both "C:/xampp/htdocs/app\Events\ActivityWasTriggered.php" and "C:/xampp/htdocs/app\Notifications\ActivityWasTriggered.php", the first will be used.
Warning: Ambiguous class resolution, "App\Events\BaseEvent" was found in both "C:/xampp/htdocs/app\Events\BaseEvent.php" and "C:/xampp/htdocs/app\Notifications\BaseEvent.php", the first will be used.
Warning: Ambiguous class resolution, "App\Events\ContactUsFeedback" was found in both "C:/xampp/htdocs/app\Events\ContactUsFeedback.php" and "C:/xampp/htdocs/app\Notifications\ContactUsFeedback.php", the first will be used.
Warning: Ambiguous class resolution, "App\Events\UserRegistered" was found in both "C:/xampp/htdocs/app\Events\UserRegistered.php" and "C:/xampp/htdocs/app\Notifications\UserRegistered.php", the first will be used.
Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump
@php artisan package:discover
Discovered Package: nesbot/carbon
Discovered Package: yajra/laravel-datatables-oracle
Discovered Package: spatie/laravel-analytics
Discovered Package: intervention/image
Discovered Package: bpocallaghan/notify
Discovered Package: bpocallaghan/impersonate
Discovered Package: bpocallaghan/alert
Discovered Package: fideloper/proxy
Discovered Package: laravel/tinker
Discovered Package: barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper
Discovered Package: beyondcode/laravel-dump-server
Discovered Package: bpocallaghan/generators
Discovered Package: nunomaduro/collision
Discovered Package: bpocallaghan/titan
Package manifest generated successfully.

Process finished with exit code 0 at 18:12:59.
Execution time: 6,777 ms.
i removed the file BaseEvent, ContactUsFeedback, UserRegistered, ActivityWasTriggered from Notifications and all working fine but i dont know why this file extracted there is problem with php artisan titan:publish --files=app??? normaly as i see from titan folder i mast to see ContactUsSubmitted, UserConfirmedAccount and UserRegistered but is not extracted

Thanks

Contact Us

Contact Us body not showing on demo

Errors: Errors even on installation

Errors on users table seeder:

Migrated: 2018_10_26_034432_alter_users_table (0.25 seconds)
Seeding: UsersTableSeeder

ErrorException : Trying to get property 'id' of non-object

at /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/survey-backend/vendor/bpocallaghan/titan/app/Models/Traits/UserRoles.php:61
57| public function attachRole($roleSlug)
58| {
59| // add dealer role to user
60| $role = Role::where('keyword', $roleSlug)->first();

61| $this->roles()->attach([$role->id]);
62|
63| return $this->roles;
64| }

reCAPTCHA dependency

You have google/recaptcha as a dependency. I've recently updated this with a 1.2 release. It should be backwards compatible, but obviously you'd want to test that. Happy to respond to issues over at https://github.com/google/recaptcha

Slack

Hi Guys and Gals
I figured this is the fastest way to communicate to all parties interested.

Just want to ask if anyone here is interested in a slack channel?
I do not use slack frequently but totally open to the idea, I do however use skype day to day.
Figured maybe if its only 1/2 interested - skype might do for now?

Please share your thoughts.
Happy coding :)

Thanks

how to make localization?

install error with php artisan key:generate

Hello,
I am trying to install the admin, but get the following warning.

vagrant@homestead:~/code/lav$ composer install
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file
Warning: The lock file is not up to date with the latest changes in composer.json. You may be getting outdat ed dependencies. Run update to update them.
Package operations: 100 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals

I don't know how to "update" that, so i continued to the next step.
php artisan key:generate

I get these errors.
PHP Warning: require(/home/vagrant/code/lav/vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/vagrant/code/lav/artisan on line 18

Warning: require(/home/vagrant/code/lav/vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/vagrant/code/lav/artisan on line 18
PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/home/vagrant/code/lav/vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /home/vagrant/code/lav/artisan on line 18

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/home/vagrant/code/lav/vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /home/vagrant/code/lav/artisan on line 18

Please advice.
Thank you

npm run dev - bugs

hi
thanks for your repo !! is great !!

after having done
npm run dev
I see these mistakes

Missing migrations

First, thanks for putting this test project on Github.

It seems like there are migration missing. After following, and completed the installation, when I try to access the admin/blog/categories or admin/blog/articles I get SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'laravel_as.articles' doesn't exist

Any other steps that are not described in the documentation?

Thanks

Controller not exist on new setup

I just cloned and setting up in local. the setup went good and the website is good. but when trying to login or register it return error as below.

ReflectionException (-1)
Class Bpocallaghan\Titan\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisterController does not exist

Class Bpocallaghan\Titan\Http\Controllers\Auth\LoginController does not exist
ReflectionException
C:\xampp\htdocs\las\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php
779
[object Object]

please someone help me if anything i missed out during the setup. maybe i need to add spmething in config folder?

CSRF token exception

Hello again. I forgot to mention about following problem I have encountered on some pages:

The page has expired due to inactivity.

Please refresh and try again.

specifically it has triggered on banners page when user hits the save button which redirect to /admin/general/banners, I just took the screenshot below:

extra : client console error message:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 419 (unknown status)

It might be CSRF token exception, I'm not sure.

Best regards

Laravel Debugbar is not appearing in the project

HI @bpocallaghan

The Laravel Debugbar is included to the project:
https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar

The settings in the .env file are:

• APP_ENV=local
• APP_DEBUG=true
• APP_LOG_LEVEL=debug
• DEBUGBAR_ENABLED=true

but the Debugbar is not appeared in the front and even it is not appeared in the backend.

Do you have any suggestion?

FatalErrorException Call to a member function getParentsAndYou() on null

[2017-07-10 09:43:44] local.ERROR: exception 'Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException' with message 'Call to a member function getUrlParentsAndYou() on null' in C:\xampp\htdocs\laravel-admin-starter\vendor\bpocallaghan\titan\src\Controllers\TitanWebsiteController.php:138
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
[2017-07-10 09:44:00] local.ERROR: exception 'Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException' with message 'Call to a member function getParentsAndYou() on null' in C:\xampp\htdocs\laravel-admin-starter\vendor\bpocallaghan\titan\src\Controllers\TitanWebsiteController.php:135
Stack trace:
#0 {main}

What are the main differences between this and titan

What are the main differences between this starter and titan starter?