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z-song/laravel-admin

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TLDR

A PHP package for Laravel that generates a full admin control panel for your web app in minutes, with database management pages ready out of the box.

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  root((laravel-admin))
    What it does
      Admin panel generation
      CRUD page builder
      Data management
    Tech stack
      PHP
      Laravel
      Composer
    Use cases
      Backend interfaces
      Data management
      Content editing
    Audience
      PHP developers
      Laravel users
      Web builders
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Add a fully featured admin panel to your Laravel app to manage users, content, and orders without coding each screen by hand.

USE CASE 2

Generate create, read, update, and delete pages for any database table with a few lines of code.

USE CASE 3

Extend the panel with plugins like a file manager, Redis browser, log viewer, or rich text editor.

USE CASE 4

Display charts and visual stats inside your admin dashboard using the available charting extensions.

Tech stack

PHPLaravelComposer

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 30min

Requires PHP 7+ and Laravel 5.5+, installed via a few Composer commands.

In plain English

Laravel-admin is a package for PHP developers using the Laravel web framework. It helps you build administrative control panels for your web application quickly, with minimal code. The main promise is that you can get a working backend interface, including pages for creating, reading, updating, and deleting database records, in a short amount of time. Laravel is a popular PHP framework for building web applications, and an admin panel is the behind-the-scenes interface that lets you or your team manage the data in your application: adding users, editing content, reviewing orders, and so on. Laravel-admin generates these pages from your existing database models rather than requiring you to build each screen by hand. The package requires PHP 7 or higher and Laravel 5.5 or higher. Installation is handled through Composer, the standard PHP package manager, and takes a few commands. After installing, you access the admin panel at /admin in your browser using default login credentials. Beyond the core panel, the project has a wide ecosystem of optional extensions. These add capabilities like a file manager, log viewer, Redis database manager, backup tool, API tester, task scheduler interface, and various text editors including Markdown and rich text options. There are also charting extensions for displaying data visually in the admin interface. The project supports right-to-left text layout for languages that read in that direction, and has documentation in both English and Chinese. A live demo is publicly accessible at demo.laravel-admin.org for anyone who wants to see what the interface looks like before installing it.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Using laravel-admin, generate an admin panel page for a Laravel User model with columns for name, email, and created_at.
Prompt 2
Show me how to add a chart widget to my laravel-admin dashboard that displays monthly signups from my database.
Prompt 3
Help me install the laravel-admin file manager extension and configure it to allow uploading product images.
Prompt 4
Walk me through setting up laravel-admin on a fresh Laravel 10 project and logging in with the default credentials.
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