Responsive management interface based on the Gentelella Free Bootstrap 4 admin theme
Gentella-admin-Symfony-6 — HTML Admin dashboard Template
By mamless
A backoffice skeleton built on Symfony 6 and the Gentelella Free Bootstrap 4 admin template, with built-in user accounts, role permissions, blog and FAQ modules.
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Built-in authentication system and password reset email flow
User and role CRUD, combining Ajax with the Symfony form system
Blog management module with change history and Writer/Editor file upload access control
FAQ module and configurable translation functionality
The 2024 update introduced password rate limiting and a user profile approach to role configuration
Template Details
This is a skeleton application that integrates the Gentelella Free Bootstrap 4 admin theme on the Symfony 6 framework, with frontend pages built using HTML and Bootstrap 4 for a responsive management interface. The project provides basic user account functionality, including an authentication system, a password reset email flow, and user/role CRUD based on Symfony forms and Ajax.
Beyond the account system, the repository also includes a blog management module (supporting CRUD, change history, and file upload access control for Writer and Editor roles), an FAQ module, and translation functionality. The July 2024 update introduced password rate limiting and changed role configuration to a "user profile" concept: first create a profile containing a set of roles, then associate it with a user, while retaining the option to assign roles directly to users.
The runtime environment requires PHP 8 or higher and a MySQL database; the PHP version recorded in composer.json is 8.2.4. The roadmap listed in the README includes a contacts module, faker dummy data generation, adding SEO fields to entities, and upgrading to Symfony 7; these are not yet complete and should not be treated as existing features.
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Use Cases
- Quickly building a Symfony backoffice project with user authentication and role permissions
- Providing a backoffice management entry point for a blog or content site, with separate upload permissions for Writers and Editors
- Maintaining FAQ and multilingual translation content in the backoffice
- Serving as a reference project for learning Symfony 6 forms, the security component, and Doctrine integration
Suitable For
- Backend developers familiar with PHP and Symfony
- Backoffice projects that need role and permission configurations they can modify themselves
- Teams using MySQL as the database and Composer for dependency management
Getting started & customization
Use these recorded setup notes alongside the repository instructions for your chosen version.
- 1
Run composer install to install dependencies
- 2
Use php bin/console doctrine:schema:create to create the database schema
- 3
Run php bin/console doctrine:fixtures:load to load initial data; the default login is admin / admin
- 4
Requires PHP 8 or higher (composer.json records 8.2.4) and MySQL
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Usage conditions & limitations
Free to use · keep license noticeThis entry covers the free version under the MIT license in the public repository; the free scope applies to that version's code and does not mean external services or third-party assets are free.
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- You may use, modify, commercially use, and distribute this version's code for free.
- When distributing copies or substantial portions of the code, retain the original author's copyright notice and the full MIT license notice.
- The code is provided as is; warranties and limitations of liability are governed by the original license and applicable law.
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- When using this template, you must credit Colorlib as the original author, i.e., retain the attribution/credit notice for the Gentelella template author Colorlib.
- The default login credentials are admin/admin, intended only for local initial data; they must be changed before deployment, otherwise there is a security risk.
- The runtime environment requires PHP 8 or higher (composer.json records 8.2.4), plus a MySQL database and Composer to install dependencies.
- Demo images, fonts, icons, and other third-party assets must be checked against their respective licenses; the code's MIT license alone is not sufficient to determine this.
- External services such as domains, hosting, databases, payments, or AI may incur additional charges.
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But you always need to state that Colorlib is the original author of this template.
Original README
- Username : "admin" - Password : "admin"
Original README
https://github.com/mamless/Gentella-admin-Symfony-6/blob/master/LICENSEhttps://github.com/mamless/Gentella-admin-Symfony-6/blob/master/README.md- PHP >= 8 (8.2.4 used in composer.json)
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Template Information
- Source platforms
- GitHub
- Documentation and maintenance reference score
- Partly documented · 69 / 100
- Technologies
- HTML
- Website type
- Admin dashboard
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- Repository update recorded
- 2024-12-03
- Screenshot last checked
- 2026-10-02
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# **Symfony 6 backoffice with Gentella Free Bootstrap 4 Admin Dashboard Template**
Gentelella A skeleton application with user account functionality on the foundation of the Symfony 5 framework, Twitter Bootstrap and Gentelella template .
## Theme Demo

**[Template Demo](https://colorlib.com/polygon/gentelella/index.html)**
# **Features**
- Administration Dashboard with Gentelella Admin Theme
- Responsive Layout
- Bootstrap 4
- USER/ROLES CRUD with ajax and symfony form system
- Password reset and send email, with link to reset the password
- Authentication system
- Powerful blog management module (CRUD, Change histrory, file upload access control for Writers and Editors )
- FAQ module
- Translation functionality (Easy to set up whatever language you need/use)
# **Requirements**
- PHP >= 8 (8.2.4 used in composer.json)
- Symfony- 6.2.*
- MySQL
**Recent Updates**
- removed sec check : **OK**
- upgraded to symfony 5.4 : **OK**
- next remove depreciations : **OK**
- new symfony security **OK**
- fix data fixtures **OK**
- PHP 8 compatible **OK**
- Annotations replacement for attribute **OK**
- Entities properties are typed now
- **UPDATED TO SYMFONY 6**
- Add FAQ
# **Credits**
- [Gentelella](https://github.com/ColorlibHQ/gentelella) - Admin template project is developed and maintained by [Colorlib](https://colorlib.com/ "Colorlib - Make Your First Blog") and Aigars Silkalns
- Mamour Wane (Mamless) co-founder of [ONETECHSN](https://onetechsn.com) designed and maintened the project so far
# **Third party tools**
- [Rector](https://github.com/rectorphp/rector) nice php open source tool to help upgrade code be compatible with higher version of framework and languages
- [PHP-CS-Fixer](https://github.com/PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer) nice php open source tool fixes your code to follow standards (refactor)
## License information
Gentelella is licensed under The MIT License (MIT). Which means that you can use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software. But you always need to state that Colorlib is the original author of this template.
# **SETUP**
1 - Install all dependencies :
~~~
composer install
~~~
2 - Create database using the next command:
~~~
php bin/console doctrine:schema:create
~~~
3 - You will need to populate your database using fixtures for login.
Run:
~~~
php bin/console doctrine:fixtures:load
~~~
And use the next credentials to login.
- Username : "admin"
- Password : "admin"
**ENJOY**
**Latest Updates 15/07/2024 (long time no see)**
- Add rate limiter for password
- Add a new concept of profile for users instead of directly giving roles to user , we create a profile with a set of roles and then link it to the user , now each controller method and each action on twig templates is secured by a dedicated role, the role system is completely configurable as pleased. But we can steal give users roles directly
- Data fixtures contains all the new roles
**Recent Updates**
- removed sec check : **OK**
- upgraded to symfony 5.4 : **OK**
- next remove depreciations : **OK**
- new symfony security **ok**
- fix data fixtures **ok**
- PHP 8 compatible **ok**
- Annotations replacement for attribute **ok**
- Entities properties are typed now
***
** Updates coming **
- Add contact module :
- - Read messages in an inbox style **ok**
- - Sort by date and read status
- - Research in contacts
- - load mail with ajax
- Add faker to generate fake data
- add SEO fields to each entity
- ~~upgrade to symfony 6.4 (the LTS version november 2023)~~
- upgrade to symfony 7 Explore similar templates
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