So... your site needs an admin area. Do yourself a favor and skip all that custom code and jump straight into EasyAdmin bundle. Why #1? Because it'll take you a fraction of the time to build what you need. Why #2? Because it'll…

Well hey friends! We are in for a treat with this tutorial! It's EasyAdmin: my favorite admin generator for Symfony. It just... gives you so many features out of the box. And it looks great! This shouldn't really be a surprise because its…

…to put an "Edit" button that takes us directly to the edit action for this specific question. So... how do we generate URLs to EasyAdmin from Twig? Open the template for this page - templates/question/show.html.twig - and find the

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The EasyAdmin interface looks pretty great out of the box. But what if we want to customize the way something looks? For example, if I want to change the background on the sidebar. How can we do that? This type of stuff can be controlled…

Run: git status Installing EasyAdmin didn't do anything fancy: it doesn't have a recipe that adds config files or a button that makes cute kittens appear. Darn. It just added itself and registered its bundle. So simply installing the bundle didn't give…

…few minutes ago, we also saw content.html.twig. This is a nice layout template that you can extend if you're creating a custom page inside of EasyAdmin. In crud/, we see the templates for the individual pages and in field/, there's a…

…Then, most importantly, pass the entity's class name: Question::class: Behind the scenes, when we click this new link, EasyAdmin will recognize that there is only one CRUD controller for the entity - QuestionCrudController - and will know to use it. And yes, in theory, we…

…But hmm, I want to redirect back to the "detail" page in the admin. In order to generate a URL to somewhere inside EasyAdmin, we need a special admin URL generator service that can help add the query parameters. Let's autowire this: AdminUrlGenerator $adminUrlGenerator…

There are actually three different types of actions in EasyAdmin. The first consists of the normal actions, like Add, Edit, Delete, and Detail. These operate on a single entity. The second type is batch actions, which operate on a selection of entities. For example, we…

Thanks to ->setEntityPermission(), EasyAdmin now runs every entity in this list through the security system, passing ADMIN_USER_EDIT for each. If we were running this security check manually in a normal Symfony app, it would be the equivalent of $this->isGranted('ADMIN_USER_EDIT…

…an array or an iterable. I usually return an iterable by saying yield Field::new() and passing the property name, like id: When I refresh... we have "ID" and nothing else. So EasyAdmin has many different types of fields, like text fields, boolean fields, and…

…that we have inside of User is $roles, which actually stores an array of the roles this user should have: That's probably a good thing to include on our admin page. And fortunately, EasyAdmin has an ArrayField! Check it out! Say yield ArrayField::new(…

…a super-hero-like class where we get to modify any field in any CRUD section from the comfort of our home. We really do live in the future. At this point in the process, what EasyAdmin gives us is something called a FieldDto, which…

…deletes using that same condition. But it would be much simpler if we could truly disable the DELETE action on an entity-by-entity basis. Then EasyAdmin would naturally just... hide the "Delete" link. To figure out how to do this, let's click into…

…the question itself is in a textarea, which is nice. But it would be even better if we could have a fancy editor that helps with our markup. Fortunately EasyAdmin has something just for this. In QuestionCrudController, for the question field, instead of a textarea…

…It starts with /admin and then has a bunch of query parameters. It turns out that everything in EasyAdmin is handled by a single giant route. It all runs through the DashboardController route - the /admin route that's above index(): So when we go to…

…and... see if we can get it all working. Fortunately, EasyAdmin makes this pretty easy! It's like it's in the name or something... Back over in UserCrudController (it doesn't matter where, you can have this in whatever order you want), I'm…

…curious: dive in and check out the code behind the scenes. It's a great way to learn more about how EasyAdmin works on a deeper level. Methods like ->onlyOnIndex() give us a lot of control. But also notice that configureFields() is passed the $pageName…

…of it. But let's pretend that we don't want that for some reason... like because these are meant to be tiny avatars. Actually, EasyAdmin has a field that's made specifically for avatars. It's called AvatarField! Back in our code, yield AvatarField…

…form. A custom field is a great way to encompass a bunch of custom field configuration in one place so you can reuse it. And creating a custom field is pretty easy. Down in the src/EasyAdmin/ directory, create a new PHP class called, how…