SonataAdminBundle - The missing Symfony2 Admin Generator

The online documentation of the bundle is in http://sonata-project.org/bundles/admin

For contribution to the documentation you cand find it on Resources/doc.

Warning: The bundle has been split into 4 bundles :

• SonataAdminBundle : the current one, contains core librairies and services
• SonataDoctrineORMAdminBundle : Integrates the admin bundle into with the Doctrine ORM project
• SonataDoctrineMongoDBAdminBundle : Integrates the admin bundle into with MongoDB (early stage)
• SonataDoctrinePhpcrAdminBundle : Integrates the admin bundle into with PHPCR (early stage)

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Quick example

Defining an Admin class is pretty easy: simply define configure[Show|Form|List|Datagrid]Fields methods

<?php
namespace Sonata\NewsBundle\Admin;

use Sonata\AdminBundle\Admin\Admin;
use Sonata\AdminBundle\Form\FormMapper;
use Sonata\AdminBundle\Datagrid\DatagridMapper;
use Sonata\AdminBundle\Datagrid\ListMapper;
use Sonata\AdminBundle\Show\ShowMapper;

class PostAdmin extends Admin
{
    public function configureShowFields(ShowMapper $showMapper)
    {
        $showMapper
            ->add('author')
            ->add('enabled')
            ->add('title')
            ->add('abstract')
            ->add('content')
            ->add('tags')
        ;
    }

    public function configureFormFields(FormMapper $formMapper)
    {
        $formMapper
            ->with('General')
                ->add('enabled', null, array('required' => false))
                ->add('author', 'sonata_type_model', array(), array('edit' => 'list'))
                ->add('title')
                ->add('abstract')
                ->add('content')
            ->end()
            ->with('Tags')
                ->add('tags', 'sonata_type_model', array('expanded' => true))
            ->end()
            ->with('Options', array('collapsed' => true))
                ->add('commentsCloseAt')
                ->add('commentsEnabled', null, array('required' => false))
            ->end()
        ;
    }

    public function configureListFields(ListMapper $listMapper)
    {
        $listMapper
            ->addIdentifier('title')
            ->add('author')
            ->add('enabled')
            ->add('tags')
            ->add('commentsEnabled')
        ;
    }

    public function configureDatagridFilters(DatagridMapper $datagridMapper)
    {
        $datagridMapper
            ->add('title')
            ->add('enabled')
            ->add('tags', null, array('filter_field_options' => array('expanded' => true, 'multiple' => true)))
    }
}

Screenshots : http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/581816/2/BaseApplicationBundle/preview?h=59b2e8

Of course, power users will be happy as an Admin class is very flexible as all dependencies are injected by the DIC.

Features

• Dashboard

• List

  • Automatic sort
  • Link to associated admin (Post => User)
  • Custom templates
  • Row Action : edit, view, ...
  • Batch Action
  • Clever row visualisation : boolean values are represented with 'check picture'
  • Filter
  • Pagination

• Edit/Create

  • Inline edition
  • Association management (create related model with + icon)
  • Group fields
  • Sortable option
  • Modal window to select model (when the list can be important)
  • Dynamic form on [one|many]-to-many association (add new element)

• Templating

  • base templates (field, list, filter) can be overwritten
  • layout templates can be defined into the Service Container

• Others

  • Nested Admin, ie /news/post/5/comment/list : filter and create comments only for the post with id=5
  • Contextual Breadcrumb
  • persistent parameters across an Admin
  • side menu option
  • Translated into 14 languages : CA, DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, JA, NL, PL, PT_BR, PT_PT, RU, UK an HR.
  • Built to be extended
  • Explain command line utility

Usage examples

• SonataMediaBundle : a media manager bundle
• SonataNewsBundle : a news/blog bundle
• SonataPageBundle : a page (CMS like) bundle
• SonataUserBundle : integration of FOSUserBundle and SonataAdminBundle

TODO

• create the ODM version
• save filter criteria
• export list