Dynamic Admin Panel (Miscellaneous)

By Acty, April 1, 2014

Are you tired of buying ‘static’ admin panel templates which is difficult to integrate with actual back-end?

What is KS Panel?
– KS Panel is a dynamic Control Panel with fully working front-end and back-end. It is created after the author’s frustration with
static admin templates which is difficult to integrate with back-end (PHP and MySQL).

- KS Panel uses Bootstrap 3.1, jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery ValidationEngine, PHP OOP and Zend Framework.
- It provides several core features, including Installer, User Management, Dashboard, Navigation Menu, Options and News.
- More features to come in coming months, this is a serious product with a lot of potential.

- It has 2 sections (Home and Control Panel) both using the same login page
-- Home for users
-- Control Panel for admin

Installer
– Comes with installer, setup is breeze
– Requires PHP 5.2+
– Requires PDO_Mysql.
– Highly configurable config.php
– Error log mechanism (error.txt) to easily identify back-end problems (PHP, MySQL)

Dashboard
– Unlimited dashboard
– Each dashboard can have 1 or more column
– Each column can have 1 or more portlet
– A portlet content can be HTML content or URL via AJAX call
– Drag & drop feature (both on admin and user side)
– Open & Close a portlet
– Personalization – it remembers user preference
– Integrate with Navigation Menu
– Embed dashboard into any PHP file using generated ‘Source Code’

Menu
– Bootstrap menu
– Support 4 levels of submenu
– Menu of 4 types: Internal URL, External URL, Parent Menu, Separator
– Unlimited number of menu, each can have unlimited number of menu items
– Supports Glyphicon and Font-awesome
– Re-order menu using Drag & Drop

User
– Unlimited number of users and administrators
– Login, logout, change password, update own profile
– User administration – add, display, modify, delete
– User administration – Search for users
– Disable user (cannot login, but userid is not deleted)
– Supports 2 roles: ADMIN & USER (more in the future)
– Retrieve lost password
– Session timeout, configurable through Option

Option
– Configurable option, can use Source Code to use in any PHP file
– Support Option Group… easier to manage and find options
– Create new Option using provided form
– Add, Modify, Delete options

News
– News administration – add, display, modify, publish news
– Control news visible to public/ login users / both
– Control publish date, only appear during publish duration
– Automatically added into front page