Laravel is a popular PHP framework that is frequently used to build admin panels on a relational database, such as MySQL. Admin panels enable users to perform CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations in an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI).
This Laravel tutorial teaches you how to create an admin panel using Laravel and Open Admin, which is an open-source Laravel admin panel that is easy to set up and install. Open Admin lets users easily administer data with a pre-configured PHP admin panel.
By reading this blog post and watching the Laravel admin panel tutorial, you will learn the steps required to build and launch a Laravel admin panel.
Laravel is a PHP framework for rapidly building web applications. It follows the model–view–controller architectural pattern and is one of the world’s most popular web frameworks, according to Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey.
Using Laravel, developers can create full-stack applications. The framework comes with beginner-friendly starter kits and comprehensive documentation, making it a popular choice for those new to coding and experts alike.
Its out-of-the-box features needed by almost every web application, such as authentication, authorization, notifications, or validations, speed up development and enable developers to focus on what’s truly important without reinventing the wheel.
Laravel’s rich ecosystem comes with many open-source libraries and projects developers can tap into. This includes, for example, Open-admin, a fork of the Laravel-admin, one of the most used open-source admin panels. Open-admin is easy to set up, code-based, and comes with useful helpers that speed up development.
Five is a rapid application development environment that lets developers rapidly build and deploy an admin panel on almost any data source.
Five speeds up web application development with its comprehensive set of features, such as:
1. A database modeler for MySQL,
2. A connection wizard for connecting to external REST APIs or external databases,
3. Forms, chart, and report wizards for creating your front-end,
4. An auto-generated, responsive admin panel with out-of-the-box authentication and authorization
5. An audit trail and application logs,
6. A built-in debugger, references, and event-driven programming, and
7. Single-click deployment to pre-configured development, testing, and production environments for your application.
When using Five, no other external tools are required to build, manage, test and launch an admin panel. Five covers the entire development process, from database modeling to deployment in one platform. All development happens right inside your browser, no installation is required.
Watch this code-along tutorial and learn how to create an admin panel using Five. Create a database from scratch and launch an admin panel including forms, charts, and a PDF report. Add user management and authentication, and integrate your application with Slack.
Here is what users say about Five:
“Five is a great product for building admin panels or CRUD applications. It is easy to use, scalable and has great customer support. I highly recommend Five to anyone who needs to build a web application without much effort.” – Shweta Kale, Software Developer
“Five is an excellent approach to that disconnect between relational database development and the web.” – Crag Jones
“Five took away a lot of headaches of frontend development by providing a highly customizable UI and navbar alongside a MySQL database.” – Nebiyu Elias, Software Engineer
“With Five, we were able to very quickly develop a prototype of the solution we had in mind. We liked the fact that inside Five, we can work in no code, low code, or even full code, which gives us full flexibility to design software applications.” – Kurt Bornhutter, Group Manager, Revenue & Optimisation, Canstar
“Five is a rapid, robust way to take spreadsheet-based business processes, and replace them with better validated forms for data collection, and approval workflows. Five makes it easy to write custom functions, and perform traditional integrations, using JavaScript.” – Philip Antrobus, Data & AI Capability Lead, NCS Australia
Learn how to use Laravel to create an admin panel by watching the tutorial below. Learn how to:
1. Install Laravel and create a new Laravel project.
2. Use open-admin, an open-source Laravel admin panel, to create your user interface.
3. Use phpMyAdmin to see your MySQL database.
4. Access the Open Admin dashboard.
5. Use Open Admin’s Helpers to create options in your admin panel (scaffold, database terminal, Laravel Artisand, and routes).
To follow this tutorial, you must have a basic understanding of Laravel and MySQL. Knowledge of tools such as phpMyAdmin and Sublime Text or a similar code editor is recommended.
To sum up, here is what we have learned today. We learned how to
1. Use Laravel to create an admin panel, using the open-source admin panel Open Admin.
2. Create tables, assign data types, and display types for the database supporting our admin panel using Helpers.
3. Give users access to a database table through the admin panel.
Continue developing by following our comprehensive code-along articles here.