Hasheado Admin Bundle

This is the bundle I use for admin generator in Symfony application. Basically, it’s an extension of SonataAdminBundle, but with different UI and FOSUserBundle already integrated for user and authentication management.

You can find it in:
Packagist
Github

You can follow this documentation to install it and use it:

Step 1: Download the Bundle

NOTE: This bundle depends in the SonataAdminBundle, FOSUserBundle and in the SonataDoctrineORMAdminBundle.

In an already working Symfony installation edit your composer.json file and add this line:

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require: {
    "hasheado/admin-bundle"
: "dev-master"
}

and then, open a command console, enter your project directory and execute the following command to download the latest stable version of this bundle:

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user@unix:~$ composer update

This command requires you to have Composer installed globally, as explained in the installation chapter of the Composer documentation.

Step 2: Enable the bundle

To enable the bundle we need to add the following line in the app/AppKernel.php file of your project:

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<?php
// app/AppKernel.php

// ...
class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
    public function registerBundles()
    {
        $bundles = array(
            // ...

            // Add dependencies
            new Sonata\CoreBundle\SonataCoreBundle(),
            new Sonata\BlockBundle\SonataBlockBundle(),
            new Knp\Bundle\MenuBundle\KnpMenuBundle(),
            new Sonata\DoctrineORMAdminBundle\SonataDoctrineORMAdminBundle(),
            new FOS\UserBundle\FOSUserBundle(),
            new Sonata\UserBundle\SonataUserBundle('FOSUserBundle'),
            new Sonata\EasyExtendsBundle\SonataEasyExtendsBundle(),

            // Then add SonataAdminBundle
            new Sonata\AdminBundle\SonataAdminBundle(),
            // And HasheadoAdminBundle
            new Hasheado\AdminBundle\HasheadoAdminBundle(),

            // ...
        );
    }

    // ...
}
?>

Step 3: Configuration

If you followed the installation instructions, HasheadoAdminBundle should be installed but inaccessible. You first need to configure it for your models before you can start using it.

Import the HasheadoAdminBundle’s config files:

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# app/config/config.yml
imports
:
    - { resource
: @HasheadoAdminBundle/Resources/config/config.yml }

sonata_user
:
    class
:
        user
: pathToYourBundle\Entity\User
        group
: pathToYourBundle\Entity\Group

    fos_user
:
        user_class
: pathToYourBundle\Entity\User
    group
:
        group_class
: pathToYourBundle\Entity\Group

Of course, replace the path to your User and/or Group entities, and do not forget to make your classes extend the Sonata\UserBundle\Entity\BaseUser and the Sonata\UserBundle\Entity\BaseGroup classes.

Then you need to add the below security configuration:

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# app/config/security.yml
security
:
    role_hierarchy
:
        ROLE_ADMIN
: [ROLE_USER, ROLE_SONATA_ADMIN]
        ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN
: [ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_ALLOWED_TO_SWITCH]
        SONATA
:
           - ROLE_SONATA_PAGE_ADMIN_PAGE_EDIT # if you are using acl then this line must be commented

    providers
:
        fos_userbundle
:
           id
: fos_user.user_manager

    encoders
:
        FOS\UserBundle\Model\UserInterface
: sha512

    firewalls
:
       # Disabling the security for the web debug toolbar, the profiler and Assetic.
        dev
:
            pattern
: ^/(_(profiler|wdt)|css|images|js)/
            security
: false

    # ->; custom firewall for the admin area of the URL
    admin
:
        pattern
: /admin(.*)
        context
: user
        form_login
:
            provider
: fos_userbundle
            login_path
: /admin/login
            use_forward
: false
            check_path
: /admin/login_check
            failure_path
: null
        logout
:
            path
: /admin/logout
            target
: /admin
            anonymous
: true

    # -> end custom configuration

    acl
:
        connection
: default

    access_control
:
       # Admin login page needs to be access without credential
        - { path
: ^/admin/login$, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
        - { path
: ^/admin/logout$, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
        - { path
: ^/admin/login_check$, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
        # Secured part of the site
        # This config requires being logged for the whole site and having the admin role for the admin part.
        # Change these rules to adapt them to your needs
        - { path
: ^/admin/, role: [ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_SONATA_ADMIN] }
        - { path
: ^/.*, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }

At this point, the bundle is functional, but not quite ready yet.

You need to update the schema:

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user@unix:~$ php app/console doctrine:schema:update --force

and create a new root user:

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user@unix:~$ php app/console fos:user:create --super-admin

To be able to access HasheadoAdminBundle’s pages, you need to add its routes to your application’s routing file:

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# app/config/routing.yml
admin
:
    resource
: '@HasheadoAdminBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml'

Finally, publish the assets:

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user@unix:~$ php app/console assets:install

At this point you can already access the (empty) admin dashboard by visiting the url: http://yoursite.local/admin/dashboard. And, start adding your admins following SonataAdminBundle documentation.

PHP7 is almost here

The Last weekend in Miami, Florida, it took place the SunshinePHP conference where a lot of great members of the PHP community have gave great talks. I did not have the chance to be there, but I followed the talks through the social networks :D!

Rasmus Lerdorf (the PHP creator) was talking about PHP7, and here you can find his slides:

http://talks.php.net/sunshinephp15#

Some of the most important notes:

  • Engine improvements:
    • 100%+ performance gain on most real-world applications.
    • Lower memory usage.
    • Native thread local storage.
  • Removal of many deprecated features (Your PHP4 code will break!).
  • First Release Candidate scheduled for June 2015.

Also, in the slides there are a couple of chart that show you how much the engine is improved, sometimes more than HHVM. And, Rasmus encourages us to test this new PHP7 version and contribute.