Syntara Dashboard (Laravel 4 package)

Syntara is an admin system for Laravel 4.

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Features

Authentication
Users management
Groups & permissions management

Requirements

PHP 5.3+

Dependencies

Cartalyst Sentry package
jQuery 2.0.*
Twitter Bootstrap 3

Installation

In the require key of composer.json file add the following line

"mrjuliuss/syntara": "1.*"

Run the Composer update command

$ composer update

In app/config/app.php :

Add 'Cartalyst\Sentry\SentryServiceProvider' and 'Mrjuliuss\Syntara\SyntaraServiceProvider' to the end of the $providers array

'providers' => array(
    'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ArtisanServiceProvider',
    'Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider',
    ...
    'Cartalyst\Sentry\SentryServiceProvider',
    'Mrjuliuss\Syntara\SyntaraServiceProvider'
),

Add 'Sentry' => 'Cartalyst\Sentry\Facades\Laravel\Sentry' to the end of the $aliases array

'aliases' => array(

    'App'             => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\App',
    'Artisan'         => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan',
    ...
    'Sentry'          => 'Cartalyst\Sentry\Facades\Laravel\Sentry'
),

Launch install commands :

php artisan syntara:install

Create first user (the first user must add to the "Admin" group, to allow you an access to all features)

php artisan create:user username email password Admin

Now go to login page :

http://your-url/dashboard/login

Custom Development

Add a new feature to Syntara dashboard

You must extend your new controller with the Syntara BaseController, like this :

<?php

use MrJuliuss\Syntara\Controllers\BaseController;

class FeatureController extends BaseController
{
    public function getIndex()
    {
        $this->layout = View::make('syntara::dashboard.index');

        $this->layout->title = 'My new feature';

        // add breadcrumb to current page
        $this->layout->breadcrumb = array(
            array(
                'title' => 'My new feature',
                'link' => 'dashboard',
                'icon' => 'glyphicon-home'
            ),
            array(
                'title' => 'Current Page',
                'link' => 'dashboard/current',
                'icon' => 'glyphicon-plus'
            ),
        );
    }
}

Add permission to your new Controller route :

Route::get('routes', array('as' => 'route_name', 'before' => 'hasPermissions:permission', 'uses' => 'Namespace\ControlerRoute'));

Where 'permission' is the name of your permission

Example :

Route::get('blog/article/new', array('as' => 'new_article', 'before' => 'hasPermissions:create.article', 'uses' => 'MrJuliuss\Syntara\Controllers\ArticleController@getCreate'));

Extend the user navigation by creating a view composer:

View::composer('syntara::layouts.dashboard.master', function($view)
{
    $view->nest('navPages', 'left-nav');
    $view->nest('navPagesRight', 'right-nav');
    $view->with('siteName', 'My Site');
});

This passes in 2 views, 'left-nav' and 'right-nav'. These add links to the left or right of the navigation bar.

'left-nav.blade.php' example :

<li class=""><a href=""><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i> <span>Home</span></a></li>
<li class="dropdown" >
    <a class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i> <span>Blog</span></a></a>
    <ul class="dropdown-menu">
        <li><a href="">Articles</a></li>
        <li><a href="">Comments</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>

Pass a string called siteName to the view composer to change the site name.

Use Syntara Permission Models

Permission Provider

use PermissionProvider;

$permission = PermissionProvider::findById();

Permission Model, create an empty permission

$permissionModel = PermissionProvider::createModel();

User / Group models

Syntara uses Sentry 2 models for Users & Groups management, please read Sentry 2 docs : http://docs.cartalyst.com/sentry-2

TODO

Ban/unban user

License

Syntara is released under the MIT License. See the licence file for details.

aev-bbixby/syntara