laravel-admin-starter — Laravel Admin dashboard Template

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2026-10-12T21:16:52.463Z

# Laravel CMS Starter Project

A Laravel CMS Starter project with AdminLTE theme and core features.
- Laravel 5.6 (master)
- Laravel 5.5 (Branch Laravel 5.5)
- Laravel 5.4 (Branch Laravel 5.4)
- Laravel 5.2 (Branch Laravel 5.2)

[Preview project here](http://bpocallaghan.co.za)
- User: [email protected]
- Password: github

### What is New?
- Upgraded to Laravel 5.6'
- App\User model was changed to App\Models\User model
- Add config/app.php - "is_preview". This is to prevent users to delete pages and users from the demo site.
- Add admin/accounts. The clients index.blade.php is a good example when working with 1+K entries. It use Laravel Paginator via Ajax pages and filter.

## 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. package; bpocallaghan/alert
- Flash a Notification after a CRUD resource action. package; bpocallaghan/notify
- Generate crud resource, individual files. package; bpocallaghan/generators
- Impersonate any of your customers
- Roles, Assign roles to the user and navigation to exlude navigation for a user.
- Manage Blog, Banners, FAQ, Photos and many more.

## Setup (Basic)
- ```composer create-project bpocallaghan/laravel-admin-starter:dev-master laravel-admin-starter```
- open .env and set the app info (url, title, description, etc)
- check the installation with file search by Notepad++ (App\Models\User the new place instead of the the App\User model)
- check ..TableSeeder.php files because the DB::delete('TRUNCATE.. lines will generate DB errors, comment out them
- create your database and set db name in .env
- ```php artisan migrate```
- ```php artisan db:seed```
	- open database\seeds\UserTableSeeder.php to enter your admin user
- open your browser (http://laravel-admin.local)
- log into the admin (http://laravel-admin.local/admin) with your admin user

## 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)](https://github.com/spatie/laravel-analytics/tree/3.1.0)
        - 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

## Admin LTE
If you would like to change the default skin. 
Please have a look in `webpack.mix.js` Line ~110 and uncomment the desired skin.
Please also remember to update the skin's name in `'views\layouts\admin.blade.php'` - `<body class="skin-blue">`

## TODO
[Upcoming Changes and Features](https://github.com/bpocallaghan/laravel-admin-starter/blob/master/TODO.md)

## Thank you
- [ADMIN LTE](https://github.com/almasaeed2010/AdminLTE).
- Thank you [Taylor Ottwell](https://github.com/taylorotwell) for [Laravel](http://laravel.com/).
- Thank you [Jeffrey Way](https://github.com/JeffreyWay) for the awesome resources at [Laracasts](https://laracasts.com/).
- Thank you [Spatie](https://github.com/spatie) for all your packages.

## Note
Please keep in mind this is for my personal workflow and might not fit your need.
This is my starter project for most crud admin portals.
I try to keep it clean, flexibly and friendly to use. This is not a complete project or best practises, just trying to help the community :).
Please let me know about any issues or if you have any suggestions.

## Change log
Please see the [CHANGELOG](http://bpocallaghan.co.za/changelog) for more information about changes.

## My Packages Included
- [File Generators](https://github.com/bpocallaghan/generators) Laravel 5 File Generators with config and publishable stubs
- [Notify](https://github.com/bpocallaghan/notify) Laravel 5 Flash Notifications with icons and animations and with a timeout
- [Alert](https://github.com/bpocallaghan/alert) A helper package to flash a bootstrap alert to the browser via a Facade or a helper function.
- [Impersonate User](https://github.com/bpocallaghan/impersonate) This allows you to authenticate as any of your customers.
- [Sluggable](https://github.com/bpocallaghan/sluggable) Provides a HasSlug trait that will generate a unique slug when saving your Laravel Eloquent model.