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Ivana
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admin panel

Post by Ivana »

alright the other day i had a question about insert i got that all working so thanks everyone for the help :D

now I'm quite going into a different direction. I'm supposed to create an admin panel for my project part but i have no idea how to start with it.
are there any tutorial or something about it i tried to search for it but i couldn't find any :S.
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infolock
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Re: admin panel

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There isn't a tutorial for creating an admin panel per se.

The only thing you can do here is map it out for yourself, and then start building. When I build an admin panel, I follow these rules that I've come up on my own...

1) Jot down what the admin's purpose is! Is it supposed to have a login section? Is it supposed to edit only a particular part of an application? Is it supposed to be a content manager? etc...

2) Once I have the above figured out, I'll determine if tables are needed, and if so, create a table per job, making sure to keep it relational..

3) Start building from the ground up. First things first, make the login form. Then, once you have the login, create the authentication process. Then, begin the skeleton class layout (parent class, an update class, an insert class, a delete class, a select class, a misc toolset class). Then, start building the forms that will be needed to insert/update information. then, build the layout for list/edit/delete. after all html layouts have been createad, build the backend php for it..

4) Start putting it together one piece at a time, and test test test. Once you have the application put together the way you want, ask someone to beta test it..


If you are just wanting an idea of what an admin tool looks like, again, determine what exactly the intent of your admin is, and then find an online open source project that does what you want. Just use their demo to get an idea and go from there.

Hope this helps.
Ivana
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Re: admin panel

Post by Ivana »

alright so basically i make a little log in part at lets say the bottom of the page that the admin panel is for. and make them go to another page
where they can change everything .. pfft that is going to take me a while to figure that all out in 2 weeks haha.
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