AdminLTE theme for CakePHP 3

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

composer require ciricihq/adminlte

Installing dependencies

Currently this theme uses NPM to install external dependencies such as bootstrap, fontawesome or the AdminLTE itself.

To install all the dependencies, just run (within the plugin folder):

npm install && ./node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js

Configuration

First you need to load the plugin. To do so, edit your bootstrap.php file and add line below:

Plugin::load('Cirici/AdminLTE', ['bootstrap' => true]);

After that, you can easily use the AdminLTE template making your controllers extend the AdminLTE AppController:

use Cirici\AdminLTE\Controller\AppController as BaseController;

class MyController extends BaseController
{

}

Usage

First of, take a look to the bootstrap.php file to see what can you configure with Configure.

To load your custom configurations you can obviously use Configure::write where you need, but the recommended way is creating a adminlte.php file under your CONFIG folder (usually /config):

<?php
// /config/adminlte.php
return [
    'AdminLTE' => [
        'texts' => [
            'logo' => '<b>Awesome</b>Admin'
        ]
    ]
];

Login template

A login template and layout are included too. To use them, simply render the login Template from you login method:

// some kind of users Controller
public function logic()
{
    // [...]
    // Your login logic

    $this->render('Cirici/AdminLTE./Admin/Users/login');
}

Menus

This plugin uses KnpMenu for managing its menus and also includes a Yaml parser so you can easily create your menus with just three lines of code and a yaml file:

use Cake\Event\EventManager;
use Cirici\AdminLTE\Renderer\YamlMenuParser;

EventManager::instance()->on('AdminLTE.menu.sidebar', function ($event, $menu) {
    $yaml = new YamlMenuParser($menu, 'admin_menu_sidebar.yaml');
});

With a yaml file like this one:

Settings:
  uri: '#'
  attributes:
    icon: gears
  children:
    Users:
      uri: /admin/users
      attributes:
        icon: users
      children:
        Add user:
          uri: /admin/users/add
          attributes:
            icon: user-plus
    Roles:
      uri: /admin/roles
      attributes:
        icon: suitcase

Currently there's only the sidebar menu bar defined in the template.

Note that there's a special attribute icon so you can easily display FontAwesome icons on your menu. Just use the icon name and the AdminLTERenderer will do the rest.

If you're setting menu items using php you would do something like this:

$posts = $menu->addChild('Posts', [
    'uri' => ['_name' => 'posts.admin.index'],
    'icon' => 'newspaper-o'
]);
$posts->addChild('Add posts', [
    'uri' => ['_name' => 'posts.admin.add'],
    'icon' => 'plus'
]);

Crumbs

Add crumbs using the BreadcrumbsHelper::add method:

<?php
$this->Breadcrumbs->add('Posts', '/posts');
$this->Breadcrumbs->add($yourCurrentPost->title);

View blocks

Many sections of the layout can be managed just defining some view blocks.

For this reason, we recommend creating a custom layout which your views will extend.

Create an admin.ctp file wherever you want, add there your custom AdminLTE view blocks, and then make your views extend that layout:

<?php
// src/Templates/admin.ctp
$this->start('AdminLTE.user.sidebar');
echo 'Hello ' . $this->Session->read('Auth.User.username') . '!';
$this->end('AdminLTE.user.small');

And then, in your views:

<?php
$this->extend('/admin');

Here are all the currently defined view blocks:

• subtitle
• AdminLTE.user.small
• AdminLTE.user.detail
• AdminLTE.user.sidebar
• AdminLTE.sidebar.right

Don't forget to check out the official AdminLTE repository to know how to properly define each section.

License

Created by Òscar Casajuana for Cirici New Media

AdminLTE theme for CakePHP 3
Copyright (C) 2016 Òscar Casajuana

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.