How to Create Admin Panel using Voyager in Laravel 8

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Inside this tutorial, we will create an admin panel in a very short time. Admin panel using Voyager composer package. This article is very interesting to learn admin panel development step by step.

Voyager provides the complete package of an admin panel in laravel. So inside this article we will create admin panel using voyager in laravel 8. Voyager for Laravel gives a modern and responsive PhpMyAdmin like admin panel with CRUD support and precise users’ access control for your Laravel API.

Very few simple steps we need to install and configure admin panel.

Let’s get started.

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Laravel Installation

We will create laravel project using composer. So, please make sure your system should have composer installed. If not, may be this article will help you to Install composer in system.

Here is the command to create a laravel project-

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

To start the development server of Laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

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Install Voyager for Laravel

By using composer we will install voyager. Open project into terminal and run this command.

$ composer require tcg/voyager

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Create Database & Application Connectivity

We need to create a database. For database we will use MySQL. We have 2 options available to create database. Either we can use PhpMyAdmin Manual interface Or we can use command to create.

CREATE DATABASE voyager_admin_panel;

Open .env file for application connectivity.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=voyager_admin_panel
DB_USERNAME=admin
DB_PASSWORD=Admin@123

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Run Voyager installer Laravel

There are two options to create the admin panel either with a dummy data or without.

To install Voyager without dummy data

$ php artisan voyager:install

To install Voyager with the dummy data

$ php artisan voyager:install --with-dummy

It is preferable to run the command using the dummy data and delete it after admin panel testing.

If we go inside database to see the tables and dummy data what we have installed. Total 17 tables created.

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Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

By default Voyager provides Admin login details as –

Email: admin@admin.com
Password: password

Admin URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin

Create a Different Admin User

Instead of using the default admin login details, if needs to create new one. Run this command –

Syntax

$ php artisan voyager:admin your@email.com --create

Example

$ php artisan voyager:admin onlinewebtutorhub@gmail.com --create

It will ask few questions like Admin name, password, confirm password.

Now, you can use your own login details to use Voyager Admin panel in Laravel 8.

Here, is the menus generated at admin panel of voyager.

About Generated Files

1. /config/voyager-hooks.php
2. /config/voyager.php
3. Route added inside /routes/web.php
4. Admin Panel Files – /vendor/tcg/voyager

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