E2 Admin Project Template

E2 Admin Project Template is a skeleton base application for starting admin development in Yii2 web framework.

The template includes three tiers: front end, back end, and console, each of which is a separate Yii application.

The template uses AdminLTE as a html template.

The project contains following modules to get started -

• Dashboard
• Users
• Access Control
• CMS Manager
• Email Manager
• Settings

It also features two themes alongwith default theme comes with yii2 framework and language swither in frontend.

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

common
    components/             contains helper modules that boostraped with application
    config/             contains shared configurations
    mail/                contains view files for e-mails
    messages/               contains messages translations files for i18n 
    models/              contains model classes used in both backend and frontend
    tests/               contains tests for common classes
    widgets/            contains common widgets
console
    config/              contains console configurations
    controllers/         contains console controllers (commands)
    migrations/          contains database migrations
    models/              contains console-specific model classes
    runtime/             contains files generated during runtime
backend
    assets/              contains application assets such as JavaScript and CSS
    config/              contains backend configurations
    controllers/         contains Web controller classes
    models/              contains backend-specific model classes
    runtime/             contains files generated during runtime
    tests/               contains tests for backend application    
    views/               contains view files for the Web application
    web/                 contains the entry script and Web resources
frontend
    assets/              contains application assets such as JavaScript and CSS
    config/              contains frontend configurations
    controllers/         contains Web controller classes
    models/              contains frontend-specific model classes
    runtime/             contains files generated during runtime
    tests/               contains tests for frontend application
    themes/             contains template theme view files            
    views/               contains view files for the Web application
    web/                 contains the entry script and Web resources
    widgets/             contains frontend widgets
vendor/                  contains dependent 3rd-party packages
environments/            contains environment-based overrides

REQUIREMENTS

The minimum requirement by this project template is Apache Web server that supports PHP 5.4.0.

INSTALLATION

clone this repository using following command -

    
        git clone 
    

PREPARING APPLICATION

1. Once project has been cloned open terminal and move to your project folder path.

   Run composer install command to install all framework requirement

2. Create a new database and adjust the components['db'] configuration in common/config/main-local.php accordingly.

3. Now apply migrations with command php yii migrate.

4. To enable access controls run this migration command php yii migrate --migrationPath=@yii/rbac/migrations followed by php yii rbac/init command.