bpocallaghan / titan-starter-website

A Laravel Website and Admin starter project that helps you with the setup.

Laravel CMS Starter

A Laravel Website with Admin access Starter project with AdminLTE theme and basic features.

• Unit Tests (156 tests, 690 assertions)

Preview project here

• User: [e-mail]
• Password: github

Features

• Admin LTE theme
• Authentication
• User Roles
• Admin Navigation
• Log and View Activities (website actions and admin resource changes)
• Accounts
• App Settings
• Banners
• Page Builder
• Resources (Documents, Photos, Videos)
• News
• Shop
• FAQ
• Website: Contact Us

TODO

• More Tests (pages, news)
• Events
• Testimonials

Setup (Basic)

• Clone or Download the code
• create your database
• setup your virtual host (preview: http://titan.test)
• open .env and update app information, database, mail
• open database\seeds\UsersTableSeeder.php and set your admin user credentials
• NPM (css and js): Install npm install and Run npm run prod

Setup (Advanced)

• config\app.php -> set timezone
• create Facebook Website App https://developers.facebook.com/
• create a Mailgun account and set custom domain
• google Captcha https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin#list
• google Analytics Account https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web
• google Console Developer account for google maps and google analytics API
  • https://console.developers.google.com
  • Enable the 'google analytics' API
  • Create api browser key for google maps
  • Get and Setup Laravel Analytics Laravel Analytics (Spatie)
    • create new service account key (JSON)
    • download and rename the json to 'service-account-credentials.json'
    • store the file under /storage/app/analytics
    • go to (google analytics)[https://analytics.google.com/analytics/]
    • go to admin - property - user management and add the service account's email as a user
    • go to admin - view - settings and copy the 'site id' to your .env
• get a Google Maps js API key https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key

Thank you

• All contributors
• ADMIN LTE.
• Thank you Taylor Ottwell for Laravel.
• Thank you Jeffrey Way for the awesome resources at Laracasts

My Packages Included

• File Generators Laravel 5 File Generators with config and publishable stubs
• Notify Laravel 5 Flash Notifications with icons and animations and with a timeout
• Alert A helper package to flash a bootstrap alert to the browser via a Facade or a helper function.
• Impersonate User This allows you to authenticate as any of your customers.
• Sluggable Provides a HasSlug trait that will generate a unique slug when saving your Laravel Eloquent model.