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AdminLTE is a free advanced management control panel theme based on Bootstrap 3.x, fully responsive management , suitable for many screen resolutions from small mobile devices to large desktop computers.
Features of AdminLTE:
Tools we use
Download a brand new Laravel
If you are not sure, you can go to the official website to view the documentation link
Here we can use the command line directly
composer create-project laravel/laravel myapp --prefer-dist
With this command we create a new Laravel project named myapp. If you succeed, you can see the picture below
Download AdminLTE via Bower
Go to the myapp/public folder
cd myapp/public
Execute the following command in this folder
bower install admin-lte
Once completed, you will find an additional bower_componets folder, and in this folder you will see AdminLTE
Convert AdminLTE starter.html to Blade template
Laravel uses Blade, a good template engine here. In order to make full use of Blade, we need to apply some regular and common HTML start pages to the Blade template. First, create a view in resources/views folder, named admin_template.blade.php, and then we create a corresponding route for this page. As I created below
Route::get('admin', function () { return view('admin_template'); });
Then, copy the content in bower_components/admin-lte/starter.html to our view template, and point the relevant links to the corresponding directory of our AdminLTE. The following is my preliminary setting:
<script src="{{ asset("/bower_components/AdminLTE/plugins/jQuery/jQuery-2.1.4.min.js")}}"></script> <!-- Bootstrap 3.3.5 --> <script src="{{ asset("/bower_components/AdminLTE/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js")}}"></script> <!-- AdminLTE App --> <script src="{{ asset("/bower_components/AdminLTE/dist/js/app.min.js")}}"></script>
Similar to this, point the relevant links of css and js to the corresponding directory, and then we check the changes of the page through localhost:8000/admin. At this time, the page becomes as follows:
Now that we have all the resources to use AdminLTE, let’s add the final touches to our main view. I will separate this template into three files, sidebar.blade.php, header.blade.php , and footer.blade.php
The contents of these three files are the admin_template.blade.phpheader part, the aside part, and the footer part. Cut these three parts out and put them into three files in sequence.
Final touches
Now that we have personalized our templates separated, we need to set up our initial admin_template.blade.php
Template to facilitate dynamic loading of content, as shown below:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>{{ $page_title or "AdminLTE Dashboard" }}</title> <meta content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no' name='viewport'> <!-- Bootstrap 3.3.2 --> <link href="{{ asset("/bower_components/AdminLTE/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css") }}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <!-- Font Awesome Icons --> <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <!-- Ionicons --> <link href="http://code.ionicframework.com/ionicons/2.0.0/css/ionicons.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <!-- Theme style --> <link href="{{ asset("/bower_components/AdminLTE/dist/css/AdminLTE.min.css")}}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <!-- AdminLTE Skins. We have chosen the skin-blue for this starter page. However, you can choose any other skin. Make sure you apply the skin class to the body tag so the changes take effect. --> <link href="{{ asset("/bower_components/AdminLTE/dist/css/skins/skin-blue.min.css")}}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <!-- HTML5 Shim and Respond.js IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries --> <!-- WARNING: Respond.js doesn't work if you view the page via file:// --> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/html5shiv/3.7.0/html5shiv.js"></script> <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/respond.js/1.3.0/respond.min.js"></script> <![endif]--> </head> <body class="hold-transition skin-blue sidebar-mini"> <div class="wrapper"> <!-- Header --> @include('header') <!-- Sidebar --> @include('sidebar') <!-- Content Wrapper. Contains page content --> <div class="content-wrapper"> <!-- Content Header (Page header) --> <section class="content-header"> <h1> {{ $page_title or "Page Title" }} <small>{{ $page_description or null }}</small> </h1> <!-- You can dynamically generate breadcrumbs here --> <ol class="breadcrumb"> <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-dashboard"></i> Level</a></li> <li class="active">Here</li> </ol> </section> <!-- Main content --> <section class="content"> <!-- Your Page Content Here --> @yield('content') </section><!-- /.content --> </div><!-- /.content-wrapper --> <!-- Footer --> @include('footer') <aside class="control-sidebar control-sidebar-dark"> <!-- Create the tabs --> <ul class="nav nav-tabs nav-justified control-sidebar-tabs"> <li class="active"><a href="#control-sidebar-home-tab" data-toggle="tab"><i class="fa fa-home"></i></a></li> <li><a href="#control-sidebar-settings-tab" data-toggle="tab"><i class="fa fa-gears"></i></a></li> </ul> <!-- Tab panes --> <div class="tab-content"> <!-- Home tab content --> <div class="tab-pane active" id="control-sidebar-home-tab"> <h3 class="control-sidebar-heading">Recent Activity</h3> <ul class="control-sidebar-menu"> <li> <a href="javascript::;"> <i class="menu-icon fa fa-birthday-cake bg-red"></i> <div class="menu-info"> <h4 class="control-sidebar-subheading">Langdon's Birthday</h4> <p>Will be 23 on April 24th</p> </div> </a> </li> </ul> <!-- /.control-sidebar-menu --> <h3 class="control-sidebar-heading">Tasks Progress</h3> <ul class="control-sidebar-menu"> <li> <a href="javascript::;"> <h4 class="control-sidebar-subheading"> Custom Template Design <span class="label label-danger pull-right">70%</span> </h4> <div class="progress progress-xxs"> <div class="progress-bar progress-bar-danger" style="width: 70%"></div> </div> </a> </li> </ul> <!-- /.control-sidebar-menu --> </div> <!-- /.tab-pane --> <!-- Stats tab content --> <div class="tab-pane" id="control-sidebar-stats-tab">Stats Tab Content</div> <!-- /.tab-pane --> <!-- Settings tab content --> <div class="tab-pane" id="control-sidebar-settings-tab"> <form method="post"> <h3 class="control-sidebar-heading">General Settings</h3> <div class="form-group"> <label class="control-sidebar-subheading"> Report panel usage <input type="checkbox" class="pull-right" checked> </label> <p> Some information about this general settings option </p> </div> <!-- /.form-group --> </form> </div> <!-- /.tab-pane --> </div> </aside> <!-- /.control-sidebar --> <!-- Add the sidebar's background. This div must be placed immediately after the control sidebar --> <div class="control-sidebar-bg"></div> </div><!-- ./wrapper --> <!-- REQUIRED JS SCRIPTS --> <!-- jQuery 2.1.3 --> <script src="{{ asset ("/bower_components/AdminLTE/plugins/jQuery/jQuery-2.1.3.min.js") }}"></script> <!-- Bootstrap 3.3.2 JS --> <script src="{{ asset ("/bower_components/AdminLTE/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js") }}" type="text/javascript"></script> <!-- AdminLTE App --> <script src="{{ asset ("/bower_components/AdminLTE/dist/js/app.min.js") }}" type="text/javascript"></script> <!-- Optionally, you can add Slimscroll and FastClick plugins. Both of these plugins are recommended to enhance the user experience --> </body> </html>
In the above code, we added contentn, which contains our main content, added page titles for different pages, and renamed it to dashboard.blade.php. Now this template is ready for use.
Test page
To verify what we have done previously, I will create a simple page
1. Create test.blade.php
@extends('dashboard') @section('content') <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-6'> <!-- Box --> <div class="box box-primary"> <div class="box-header with-border"> <h3 class="box-title">Randomly Generated Tasks</h3> <div class="box-tools pull-right"> <button class="btn btn-box-tool" data-widget="collapse" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Collapse"><i class="fa fa-minus"></i></button> <button class="btn btn-box-tool" data-widget="remove" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Remove"><i class="fa fa-times"></i></button> </div> </div> <div class="box-body"> @foreach($tasks as $task) <h5> {{ $task['name'] }} <small class="label label-{{$task['color']}} pull-right">{{$task['progress']}}%</small> </h5> <div class="progress progress-xxs"> <div class="progress-bar progress-bar-{{$task['color']}}" style="width: {{$task['progress']}}%"></div> </div> @endforeach </div><!-- /.box-body --> <div class="box-footer"> <form action='#'> <input type='text' placeholder='New task' class='form-control input-sm' /> </form> </div><!-- /.box-footer--> </div><!-- /.box --> </div><!-- /.col --> <div class='col-md-6'> <!-- Box --> <div class="box box-primary"> <div class="box-header with-border"> <h3 class="box-title">Second Box</h3> <div class="box-tools pull-right"> <button class="btn btn-box-tool" data-widget="collapse" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Collapse"><i class="fa fa-minus"></i></button> <button class="btn btn-box-tool" data-widget="remove" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Remove"><i class="fa fa-times"></i></button> </div> </div> <div class="box-body"> A separate section to add any kind of widget. Feel free to explore all of AdminLTE widgets by visiting the demo page on <a href="https://almsaeedstudio.com">Almsaeed Studio</a>. </div><!-- /.box-body --> </div><!-- /.box --> </div><!-- /.col --> </div><!-- /.row --> @endsection
2. Create TestController.php
php artisan make:controller TestController --plain
The following is the code part of this controller:
<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers; use Illuminate\Http\Request; use App\Http\Requests; use App\Http\Controllers\Controller; class TestController extends Controller { public function index() { $data['tasks'] = [ [ 'name' => 'Design New Dashboard', 'progress' => '87', 'color' => 'danger' ], [ 'name' => 'Create Home Page', 'progress' => '76', 'color' => 'warning' ], [ 'name' => 'Some Other Task', 'progress' => '32', 'color' => 'success' ], [ 'name' => 'Start Building Website', 'progress' => '56', 'color' => 'info' ], [ 'name' => 'Develop an Awesome Algorithm', 'progress' => '10', 'color' => 'success' ] ]; return view('test')->with($data); } }
3. Create the corresponding route
Route::get('test', 'TestController@index');
4. Open the corresponding page. If you made no mistakes, it should be as shown below