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.
This article is for all developers whose next web application is supposed to look something like the wireframe below and who would like to develop an admin panel quickly.
PS: Scroll down to the Laravel admin panel tutorial below to get started right away.
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.
There are even faster ways to build and launch admin panels web apps than using Laravel.
Five, a cloud IDE, is a rapid application development environment designed to speed up the process of building and deploying admin panels on nearly any data source.
For developers, the beauty of Five lies in its ability to drastically reduce development time while offering robust functionality – without compromising on flexibility or control.
What makes Five stand out for admin panel development? Let’s break it down:
Auto-Generated Admin Panels:
Five can instantly generate an admin panel that connects to almost any data source, whether it’s a database or an API. You won’t need to manually code from scratch or worry about building complex backend integrations—Five takes care of that.
Database Modeler for MySQL:
With Five’s intuitive database modeling tool, you can design and manage your database schema directly in the platform, making it easy to create and modify tables without jumping between different environments.
Connection Wizard:
Need to pull data from an external REST API or connect to a different database? Five’s connection wizard simplifies the process of integrating external data sources, making complex integrations straightforward.
Form, Chart, and Report Wizards:
These tools allow you to quickly build forms for data collection, charts for data visualization, and reports for insight generation—all within a few clicks. Gone are the days when you needed to pull in Charts.JS or jsreport to get this done.
Out-of-the-Box Security:
Five includes built-in authentication and authorization, complete with advanced features like Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Single Sign-On (SSO). This takes the headache out of managing user access and security, a common pain point when building an admin panel.
Audit Trail & Logs:
Five’s audit trail and logging features allow you to track every action taken within the admin panel, making it easy to monitor system changes and ensure accountability.
Built-in Debugger & Event-Driven Programming:
Debugging is seamless with Five’s built-in debugger, while its support for event-driven programming gives you control over your application’s behavior at critical moments.
Single-Click Deployment:
Whether you’re testing in development or launching in production, Five offers single-click deployment to pre-configured environments, meaning you can go from build to launch with minimal friction.
The best part? No external tools required. Five provides everything you need, from database modeling to deployment, all within a single platform. All development happens right in your browser, allowing for real-time collaboration with your team or solo coding sessions.
Five covers the entire admin panel development lifecycle, letting you focus on delivering a polished, powerful solution without worrying about the usual development overhead.
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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.