How to create an Admin panel for a website
In the last article, we discussed the creation of our own engine for the site. However, very often you have to manage the site: add new materials, manage users, votes. Of course, this can be done through PHPMyAdmin , but this is very inconvenient, so a good solution would be to create an Admin panel for the site. And how to do it, you will learn in this article.
So, let's rewrite the order of actions that need to be performed:
Makeup all the pages of the site. In principle, you can do without design at all, but there should be an elementary structure. That is, tabular data should be in a table, not solid text.
Decide what data you want to see in the Admin panel. For example, for sure you will need to see the users of your site, your articles, maybe some polls.
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Create a class to manage the admin panel. Methods should be created here that allows you to select from a wide variety of tables, as well as add and edit records in them. And you need to make similar methods for all tables that you want to work within the Admin panel (you should have already selected this in the previous paragraph). For example, the simplest example with users. The minimum set of required methods: fetching all users, adding a new user, changing a user. Of course, all these tasks should be already implemented by you when creating an engine for the site, so here you will only need to refer to the old classes and, perhaps, somehow change the data specifically for admin panels.
Break your site template into separate parts and copy them into separate files with the extension. Also supply template elements, like so: " User {username} registered {regdate} ". This is just an example, and it is generally more convenient to display data in tables.
Create a class that will deal with the substitution of the corresponding data instead of template elements.
Assemble all the pages of the Admin panel of your site brick by brick using the class created in the previous paragraph.
If you wish, you can make a design, although, of course, this is exclusively for you and other administrators.
As you can see, the last 4 points are identical to those that you performed when creating the engine. Here the amount of work will be much less, so I think you can handle it without any problems.
I spent about three months on my site without an Admin panel, adding new materials directly through the database. To be honest, I spent a lot of extra time, and when I created the Admin panel on my site, the site management process was greatly simplified. So I recommend that you do the same.
