A custom theme using Twitter Bootstrap to bake admin templates in CakePHP 3, using the CakePHP Bake plugin.

• CakePHP 3
• PHP 5.4.16+

This is a theme for the CakePHP/Bake plugin which will customise the code which is generated. I've made it because I don't like the default bake theme, or the fact that it outputs the actions sidebar.

Plus I tend to use Twitter Bootstrap to make my admin areas so this theme will leverage that front-end framework.

You should install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

The recommended way to install composer packages is using,

composer require 'davidyell/nice-admin-bake-scripts:3.0.x-dev'

In your src/config/bootstrap.php you'll need to load the plugin with Plugin::load('NiceAdminBakeTheme');

In your admin layout, you'll need to include the theme and javascript.

<?= $this->Html->css([
    '//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css',
    '//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css'
]) ?>


<?= $this->Html->script([
    '//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js',
    '//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js'
]);?>

If you want to use Twitter Bootstrap for all your forms be sure to enable friendsofcake/bootstrap-UI in your application and loading the helpers in your src/View/AppView.php. Find out more about installing bootstrap-ui in their readme.

This can be easily coupled with the friendsofcake/crud plugin to pretty much make an entire basic admin in around 5 minutes!

A basic stylesheet is included to fix some minor things. You can add it to your layout using $this->Html->style('NiceAdminBakeTheme.nice-admin'). However it's much better to symlink the stylesheet into your own webroot/css and include it from there.

The theme should be available when you are baking. You can check this by just running a bake command with -h and checking the available themes listed in the --theme option help. If you don't see it make sure you've loaded the plugin.

bin/cake bake controller --theme=NiceAdminBakeTheme Examples

bin/cake bake template --theme=NiceAdminBakeTheme Examples

bin/cake bake template --theme=NiceAdminBakeTheme --prefix=Admin Examples

• Removed the _serialize from the controllers
• Removed the actions sidebar from all templates
• Formatted tables with Bootstrap
• Added a 'New' button to the top of tables
• Add basic filter form to index templates
• Tidied up the pagination
• Made the Actions column links into buttons
• Added handling for date, datetime and time using the Time helper
• Added handling for boolean data using Bootstrap icons
• Updated the View template to use Bootstrap panels
• Spaced out the Table definition functions
• Added classes to the columns in index templates

A custom cakephp/bake theme for generating customised cakephp code and templates.

Copyright (C) 2015 David Yell

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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