SmartEnd CMS – Laravel Admin Dashboard with Frontend and Restful API

Smartend CMS is a powerful admin dashboard with all features you need to build any type of websites, built using Laravel 10 framework, Smartend contains Dashboard, Frontend and flexible Restful API. Open source and can be updated easily to fit your requirements.

Demo

• Frontend: http://live.smartend.app
• Dashboard: http://live.smartend.app/admin
• Email: [email protected]
• Password: admin

• A perfect and stylish dashboard with 4 different colors and styles.
• Responsive Admin Panel.
• Multi Languages Support.
• Two directions LTR and RTL.
• Laravel 10 powerful Framework.
• Secure dashboard with login access and reset password functionality.
• A webmaster permission to mange site sections and main features.
• Dashboard with quick overview of all the modules.
• All general settings you will need for any website.
• Dynamic website sections, pages and categories.
• Drag & Drop Editor with full content control
• Different Text editors you can choose your favourite one
• Multi Login features with Facebook ,Twitter, Google, LinkedIN, Github, Bitbucket.
• Control google Tags & Analytics control in dashboard.
• Control activate/Deactivate captcha from dashboard.
• Control Email settings control in dashboard.
• Ability to clear cache feature.
• Ability to add additional custom fields to any section (CRUD).
• Automatic sitemap generator (/sitemap.xml or /sitemap/en).
• SEO settings and ability to activate friendly URLs.
• Multi categories choosing for every topic.
• Related topics tab for every topic.
• Ability to activate/disable registration feature for the dashboard.
• Every section fields and features management.
• Adding ability to activate expire date with topics of any section.
• Adding ability to activate attaching more files with any topic.
• Text editor for every page.
• Multi upload module to upload bulk of photos.
• Google map module to add multi maps in pages.
• SEO module for every page and section to help improve your website.
• Icon picker to choose icons for categories and pages.
• Additional fields for Arabic language can be activated.
• Control activate or deactivate APPs for dashboard.
• Search engine to search any where in dashboard.
• One place (Menu) to add every thing in your website.
• Categories and subcategories management.
• Banners and sliders management.
• Powerful inbox will ability to connect your webmail.
• Multiple reports with graphical illustrations.
• Notifications with new emails and events.
• Users Permission Control.
• Visual Translations.

• Responsive Bootstrap Flat Design.
• Multi Languages Support.
• Two directions RTL and LTR.
• Restful API is available for Frontend (/api/v1).
• Ability to control style settings and colors.
• Ability to control logo,fav icon, backgrounds.
• Dynamic menus and pages.
• All topics type: text pages, photos, videos add audios.
• Multi maps and locations with every topic
• Multi Photos with every topics.
• Enable/Disable Comments.
• Get all topics for every user.
• Search Engine for every section.
• Enable/Disable Order form for every topic.
• Topic details format with advanced text editor.
• Multi categories with Fontawesome icons.
• Ajax forms for contact page, newsletter subscribe, comments and orders.
• Ability to enable or disable Captcha.
• Multi places for Ad Banners.
• Home page slide show banners
• Latest topics on home page
• Control all social networks links.
• Share script for : facebook, twitter, google+, linkedin and pintrest.
• Visits counter for every page.
• Most Viewed for every section.
• Two styles for footer.
• Enable/Disable newsletter subscription form.
• Enable/Disable Pre loader.

Installation Guide:
https://smartend.app/docs/install.html
User Guide:
https://smartend.app/docs/
API Documentation:
https://smartend.app/docs/api.html

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via contact form here:
https://codecanyon.net/user/smart4ds#contact

Update Guide

How to update old versions?

Languages

• Smartend CMS support multi languages, you can control languages as you want.
• Customer support in English & Arabic

Our Guarantee

• Provide excellent support with a fast response rate.
• Patch and fix any bugs or broken content.
• Help get you setup and installed!
• Answer any questions you may have.

Project folder contents:

• _documentation
• _demo_data
• _Requirements.txt
• smartend

Changelog

Version 10.0.4 (July 26, 2024)

How to update to Smartend version 10.0.4?

- Update: To The latest Laravel v10.48.16 (Requires PHP >= 8.1).
- Fix: Resolve file manager security issue.
- Fix: Correct timezone changing issue.
- Fix: Google analytics code not working issue.
- Fix: Using more than H1 tag on the page issue.
- Fix: Removing module or custom field issue if it contain data.
- Fix: Contact page changing language issue.
- Fix: Hiding sub menu contents issue.
- Fix: Hiding custom field from frontend when not permitted.
- Fix: Google reCAPTCHA bypass issue.
- Fix: View all data table records on dashboard listing page.
- Fix: Reset password issue and disable it if mail not configured.
- Fix: Disallow JavaScript and CSS tags in system input fields.
- Fix: Changing admin path issue.
- Feature: Adding dark mode for frontend.
- Feature: Adding tags module.
- Feature: adding popups module.
- Feature: Adding a new divider or static text field in form building.
- Feature: Adding a phone with country code field in form building.
- Feature: Adding custom link for every language on banners.
- Feature: Adding a new module type for documentation listing.
- Feature: integrate Mailchimp for newsletter mailing.
- Feature: Ability to customize data tables columns view on dashboard.
- Feature: Ability to set a link for nested menu base title.
- Feature: Ability to filter by category on dashboard topics list page.
- Feature: Ability to filter using created_by field.
- Feature: Ability to search in categories.
- Feature: Improve the sitemap functionality.
- Feature: Ability to print topic view page on dashboard.
- Feature: Ability to insert custom code on head or body for the frontend.
- Feature: Enable toggling of debug mode from dashboard.
- Feature: Enable toggling of SEO tab for any module.
- Feature: Enable toggling of the ID column view for any module.
- Feature: System and structure improvements.

Version 10.0.3 (February 23, 2024)

- Update: To The latest Laravel v10.44.0 (Requires PHP >= 8.1).
- Fix: Category defining on importing data to the site section.
- Fix: Add the translation of all languages to the date picker.
- Fix: Hide the language flag for one language websites
- Fix: Speedup loading for dashboard data tables on big data.
- Feature: Improve loading speed by indexing, caching config and route caching.
- Feature: Improve SEO and add nested slugs by section/category/topic.
- Feature: Rebuild frontend theme with bootstrap 5 support.
- Feature: Add more control of frontend theme colors with predefined sets.
- Feature: Ability to make the menu bar transparent over the homepage slider.
- Feature: Add custom video player for hosted video files.
- Feature: Add custom sound player for audio files.
- Feature: Add the FAQ section (Accordion View) type
- Feature: Add clone topics feature.
- Feature: Ability to add up to 3 levels on the main website menu.
- Feature: Ability to add up to 3 levels on categories.
- Feature: Ability to add an icon to any link on the website menu.
- Feature: Ability to set links to open in a new tab automatically.
- Feature: Ability to add a custom link for every language on the website menu.
- Feature: Support any language on page slugs.
- Feature: Add cover photo for site section, category or topic.
- Feature: Add Support to ".webp" extension on photos.
- Feature: Add optimize & resize feature for images on SEO settings.
- Feature: Show sitemap links on SEO settings.
- Feature: Ability to add html on close message on maintenance mode.
- Feature: Add custom route file and custom controller for any customization.
- Feature: Ability to overwrite any page by custom coded page.
- Feature: Add Table of content feature for CKEditor.
- Feature: Add Thread link on social media links.
- Feature: Ability to show a general search box on frontend header.
- Feature: Ability to show cookies policy notification.

IMPORTANT: This update will affect your website SEO because it will change all the website links to a new nested path depending on "section/category/topic".
You may need to change some pages slugs or menu links.

Version 10.0.0 (July 01, 2023)

- Update: To The latest Laravel v10.14.1 (Requires PHP >= 8.1).
- Fix: Add the full file path on File Manager  properties window.
- Fix: Add the full uel for files and images on tinymce wysiwyg Editor
- Fix: RSS issue on some site sections.
- Fix: Related topics issue if topic was deleted.
- Fix: Show the frontend footer always on the page end.
- Fix: Change Analytics page url column length to text.
- Feature: Add an internal Updater for quick system updating.
- Feature: Add the reCAPTCHA if activated to the login page.
- Feature: Add the ability to import data to any site section on dashboard.
- Feature: Return to the same page after changing the language on frontend.
- Feature: Add new type of site sections (Private with search page on frontend).
- Feature: Show the ID with every record on dashboard.
- Feature: Add share via Whatsapp button to topic view page.
- Feature: Add Português Language with full translation (Thanks to falecomluanbispo).

Version 9.1.1 (March 18, 2023)

- Fix: Sending mail connection fail issue on some servers.
- Fix: Social login access token field limit issue.
- Fix: date time picker issue with latest jQuery update.
- Fix: disable double click on login button.
- Update: fullcalendar to the latest version.

Version 9.1.0 (March 03, 2023)

- Update: To The latest Laravel v9.52.4 (Requires PHP >= 8.0).
- Update: Frontend and backend jQuery to v3.6.3
- Feature: Adding new drag and drop editor for page contents.
- Feature: Support bootstrap css on page editor view.
- Feature: Ability to disable automatic publish on page creation.
- Feature: Adding new Radio and checkbox field types.
- Feature: Convert any link to anchor automatically on custom fields.
- Feature: Use the link field for partners images on home page.
- Feature: Improve front page load speed and SEO.
- Feature: Add default header and footer in 404 page.
- Fix: User weak password not accepted issue alert issue.
- Fix: Fix unknown IP and country details in Analytics.
- Fix: Webmaster setting save failed issue if some apps disabled.
- Fix: Site title variable that was not shown with page title.
- Fix: Check file exist before deleting a language.
- Fix: Custom field ordering on list printing page.

Version 9.0.0 (September 03, 2022)

- Update: To The latest Laravel v9.27.0 (Requires PHP >= 8.0).
- Feature: Add the ability to print datatable in dashboard
- Feature: Add the ability to export datatable to excel in dashboard
- Feature: add canonical feature to all site links
- Fix: Sending emails from draft issue.
- Fix: File manager links issue.
- Upgrade Guide:  https://smartend.app/docs/update9.0.html

Version 8.6.2 (May 27, 2022)

- Update: To Laravel v8.83.14 (Requires PHP >= 7.4).
- Feature: Change translation manager to a new great one.
- Feature: add 404 page for frontend in case of not found urls.
- Feature: Require strong passwords for new admin users.
- Fix: Showing validation error messages.
- Fix: A broken URL in frontend.
- Fix: Hide listing for /core sub folders.
- Fix: Local installation error for long mysql identifier.
- Fix: Local installation in case of no password for mysql root.

Version 8.6.1 (April 10, 2022)

- Update: To Laravel v8.83.7 (Requires PHP >= 7.4).
- Important: Fix Permissions for settings and webmaster if user not have right permission.
- Feature: Add preview and delete buttons on topic edit page.
- Feature: Ability to use a custom slug for contact page.
- Fix: Make backend path required on saving settings to avoid broken URLs.
- Fix: support "ul" and "ol" on frontend view.

Version 8.6.0 (January 21, 2022)

- Update: To the latest Laravel v8.79.0 (Requires PHP >= 7.4).
- Feature: Add the ability to create custom public forms.
- Feature: Add the ability to include a custom form to any page.
- Feature: Receive all public forms data in dashboard with email notification.
- Feature: Integrate CKEditor for editing the page details.
- Feature: Integrate TinyMCE for editing the page details.
- Feature: Add a new file manager and integrate it with CKEditor & TinyMCE.
- Feature: Improve loading and minimise quires.
- Feature: Change topics list ordering to be by date.
- Feature: If attach file is MP3 show Audio player instead of download link.
- Feature: Improvements for style & CSS.
- Feature: Add Big whatsapp bubble chat icon if enabled.
- Fix: Disable SEO tab on private data sections.
- Fix: Redirect admin user after insert if not have edit role.
- Fix: Hide Analytics widgets and pages if it is disabled.
- Upgrade Guide:  https://smartend.app/docs/update8.6.html

Version 8.5.0 (August 22, 2021)

- Update: To the latest Laravel v8.55.0 (Requires PHP >= 7.4).
- Fix: Main Menu direct link error if is empty.
- Fix: Fix multi photo uploads session issue.
- Fix: Show uploaded video in case of video banners.
- Fix: Inserting photo in custom admin page editor.
- Feature: Support PostgreSQL DB Type.
- Feature: Adding RSS feature to website sections.
- Feature: Adding visitor analytics to Rest API.
- Feature: Add Autoplay to video banners & Video topic page.
- Feature: Predefine many languages on fresh installation by default.
- Feature: Adding translation to languages ( हिंदी भाषा - ภาษาไทย - 中文語言 - Le français )

Version 8.4.0 (May 22, 2021)

- Update: To the latest Laravel v8.42.1 (Requires PHP >= 7.3).
- Fix: Visitors Analytics Fetch Information.
- Fix: Frontend search page pagination
- Fix: Title translation for row 4 on webmaster frontend settings

Version 8.3.0 (January 30, 2021)

- Update: To the latest Laravel version 8.25.0 (Requires PHP >= 7.3).
- Fix: Date picker arrows on RTL version.
- Fix: Table view header inactive columns.
- Fix: Search in additional fields select type.
- Fix: Fix YouTube image link in case of use HTTPS.
- Fix: The link of edit events in calendar.
- Fix: Search if no results on contacts page.
- Fix: Direct menu links slug in multi language case.
- Feature: Convert statistics of table and private section to charts.
- Feature: Change calendar locale to be the same as view language.
- Feature: Adding ability to choose first day of week on calendar.
- Feature: Adding ability to change date format generally.
- Feature: Show new comments count badge on dashboard with topics list.
- Feature: Improve home controller code structure.

Version 8.2.0 (December 26, 2020)

- Feature: Add New Row in homepage for welcome text details with admin control.
- Feature: Ability to add photos only on homepage slider without text details.
- Fix: Searching in additional fields data.

Version 8.1.0 (December 13, 2020)

- Update: To the latest Laravel version 8.18.1 (Requires PHP >= 7.3).
- Feature: Ability to view website for admins on case it is closed for public.
- Feature: Permission for auto approve topics or set not active to be activated manually.
- Feature: Ability to choose permission groups for every custom field.
- Feature: Ability to activate custom Admin home page for every permission group.
- Feature: New notifications cases on topic edit for table and private sections.
- Fix: Re migration Identifier name is too long issue.
- Fix: Saving site sections ordering without need to select all rows.
- Upgrade Guide:  https://smartend.app/docs/update8.1.html

Version 8.0.0 (November 08, 2020)

- Update: To the latest Laravel version 8.13.0 (Requires PHP >= 7.3).
- Update: Rebuild Dashboard HTML Views, JS & CSS to arrange and Improve.
- Feature: Ability to change admin area path from dashboard.
- Feature: Improve login page style with ability to add background image.
- Feature: Control analytics service with ability to disable analytics feature.
- Feature: update email connection settings with new abilities.
- Feature: Ability to update design of Mail template.
- Feature: Allow multi emails in notification Emails ( accept comma ,).
- Feature: Move login & register paths to be inside admin path.
- Feature: Direct view button on dashboard to view topics & categories.
- Feature: Dashboard Datatable view with search in topics.
- Feature: New site section type as a table view.
- Feature: New site section type for private data ( contents will not appear for public ) .
- Feature: Ability to control custom fields list on table or frontend or topic page.
- Feature: Ability to create section analytics depending on list custom field.
- Feature: Ability to add custom css class for new fields with predefined classes listing.
- Feature: Ability to add custom css for frontend from dashboard.
- Fix: New user register default permission group Id.
- Fix: Admin users page view if permission group deleted.
- Fix: Sub categories arrow in dashboard view.
- Fix: Remove Quantity from order form.
- Upgrade Guide:  https://smartend.app/docs/update8.0.html

Version 7.2.0 (July 18, 2020)

- Update: To the latest Laravel version 7.20.0 (Requires PHP >= 7.2.5).
- Fix: search page variable error in frontend.
- Fix: change google_analytics_code DB field to be text.
- Fix: profile and dashboard links after login in frontend header.
- Fix: frontend main menu in boxed and sticky header mode.

Version 7.1.0 (May 02, 2020)

- Update: To the latest Laravel version 7.9.2 (Requires PHP >= 7.2.5).
- Update: Copy titles and details on adding new language from default language.
- Feature: Add new method in API to get topic by category.
- Fix: Webmaster section title translation.
- Fix: Include missing web.config file for IIS users.

Version 7.0.0 (March 15, 2020)

- Update: To the latest Laravel version 7.0 (Requires PHP >= 7.2.5).
- Feature: *** Adding Multi Languages Support & Translation Manager ***
- Feature: Ability to auto repair & add SEO URLs if empty in SEO tab.
- Update: Optimise and improve code structure.
- Update: Improve installation process.
- Fix: Topics details on sharing to facebook.
- Upgrade Guide:  https://smartend.app/docs/update7.0.html

Version 6.0.0 (February 28, 2020)

- Update: To the latest Laravel version 6.0 (Requires PHP >= 7.2.0).
- Urgent: Add .htaccess file to protect /core files from direct access.
- Fix: Topics list in front from multi categories.
- Fix: External links start with (www) in main menu.
- Fix: Resolve compact errors with php v7.3.
- Fix: Resolve str_limit errors with php v7.3.
- Fix: Receive orders in order group in web mail.
- Fix: Changing contacts status.
- Update: improve visitors analytics generation.
- Update: hide user name of topics from front totally.
- Feature: Control Google maps api key from dashboard.
- Feature: Enable sending attachment with emails from web mail.
- Feature: Change topics ordering (ASC/DESC) from front settings.
- Feature: Order,comment and contact forms auto detect logged user info.
- Feature: Order,comment and contact forms auto detect logged user info.
- Feature: Convert latest articles to be in a slider.

Version 5.8.1 (September 02, 2019)

- Fix: Installer warning in local machine.
- Fix: Slider banner title in case no description.
- Fix: Google maps URL if HTTPS is enabled.

Version 5.8 (July 20, 2019)

- Update: To the latest Laravel version 5.8 (Requires PHP >= 7.1.3).
- Fix: View blocked pages nested in frontend main menu.
- Fix: Remove connected menu links on destroy site sections.
- Fix: Remove connected users on destroy permission group.

Version 5.0 (February 15, 2019)

- Adding a new project version for Laravel 5.7 (Requires PHP >= 7.1.3).
- Fix: Migrations fresh rand() error.
- Fix: Rows Ordering if row checked or not checked.
- Fix: Topics count in dashboard categories page.
- Fix: Categories enable/disable in frontend main menu.
- Fix: External links path in frontend main menu.
- Fix: Additional fields enable/disable in webmaster site sections.
- Update: Editor photo insert/upload as physical file not to DB.
- Update: Google maps language control from backLang file.

Version 4.4 (August 23, 2018)

- Fix: Laravel version 5.4 running issue on PHP 5.6.
- Fix: Frontend boxed + fixed header scroll.
- Fix: Bulk options if no record selected issue.
- Fix: PHP 7.1 count() problem in API calls.
- Fix: Reset password page issue.

Version 4.3 (May 26, 2018)

- Feature: Update all dependencies & packages.
- Fix: Id passing of left side banners.
- Fix: Captcha package error for Laravel v5.4,v5.5.
- Fix: Boxed style width on mobile view.
- Fix: Whatsapp link on social icons.
- Fix: Notification message topic title in comment & order form.

Version 4.2 (May 18, 2018)

- Feature: fixed header active/disable for Frontend.
- Feature: adding events on calendar if day click.
- Resolve: count() exception in PHP7.2.
- Resolve: sitemap Date Format.

Version 4.1 (April 23, 2018)

- Feature: adding login with Facebook ,Twitter, Google, LinkedIN, Github, Bitbucket.
- Feature: adding google Tags & Analytics control in dashboard.
- Feature: activate/Deactivate captcha from dashboard.
- Feature: adding Email settings control in dashboard.
- Feature: adding ability to clear cache.
- Feature: optimize Banners view method.
- Feature: optimize Menus view method.
- Feature: bulk settings save with one button.
- Feature: adding timezone to language settings.
- Feature: translate all error messages to Arabic.
- Feature: change Arabic fonts in dashboard & frontend.
- Feature: Update all dependencies & packages.
- Feature: Rearrange & Optimize project files.
- Resolve: Redirect after login to /admin.
- Resolve: user profile picture upload path.
- Resolve: homepage blocks dependencies.
- Resolve: reCAPTCHA validation in Laravel 5.6 version.
- Resolve: removing files while deleting multi photos in topics.

Version 4.0 (February 25, 2018)

- Adding a new project version for Laravel 5.6 (Requires PHP >= 7.1.3).

Version 3.2 (January 18, 2018)

- Resolve: Language code in session & menu URLs.

Version 3.1 (November 16, 2017)

- Feature: Restful API is now available for Frontend (/api/v1).
- Feature: Ability to add additional custom fields to any section (CRUD).
- Feature: Automatic sitemap generator (/sitemap.xml or /en/sitemap or /ar/sitemap).
- Feature: Update SEO settings and ability to activate friendly URLs.
- Feature: Multi categories choosing for every topic.
- Feature: Related topics tab for every topic.
- Feature: Ability to activate/disable registration feature for the dashboard.
- Feature: Rearrange Frontend and css style.
- Feature: Adding partners section on Frontend.
- Resolve: Exception if topic ID not found.
- Resolve: Open/Close website feature.
- Resolve: Comments showing status if disabled.
- Resolve: show subcategories on main and side menu.
- Resolve: analytics app active/disable on dashboard side menu.
- Resolve: languages choosing depending on active one.
- Resolve: fix second language (ar) URLs in all pages for frontend website & sitemap.
Two Versions with the same features is available for (Laravel 5.4 & Laravel 5.5)

Version 3.0 (September 18, 2017)

- Feature: Update to Laravel version 5.5 ( Requires PHP >= 7.0.0 ).

Version 2.2 (September 18, 2017)

- Resolve : Automatic adding permission while creating new site sections.
- Resolve : title for new site sections on main menu (if no translation).
- Feature: Adding ability to activate expire date with topics of any section.
- Feature: Adding ability to activate attaching more files with any topic.
- Feature: View attached files links to download on topic page of frontend.

Version 2.1 (July 16, 2017)

- Resolve bug on editing main admin user.
- Resolve bug on frontend footer.
- Resolve bug on calendar events end time.
- Resolve bug on frontend RTL main menu.
- Adding slide to the conformation message on contact page.
- Adding arrows to the main menu that has sub menus frontend.
- Adding Embed Video ability on backend & frontend.

Version 2.0 (March 10, 2017)

- Feature: Update to Laravel version 5.4.
- Feature: Visual translation for all languages vars.
- Feature: Advanced permissions for users.
- Feature: Ability to activate order form with topics.
- Feature: Setting DB tables prefix in .env File.
- Feature: Setting default language in .env File.
- Feature: Enable/Disable Captcha from .env File.
- Feature: Calendar language now available to set from language file.
- Feature: Adding Vimeo to video types .
- Feature: Icon Picker for Ad. Banners .
- Feature: Adding Email notifications settings to General Settings.
- Feature: Adding Frontend site style settings to General Settings.
- Feature: General Frontend settings to Webmaster General Settings.
- Feature: NEW Frontend site preview.

Version 1.2 (January 17, 2017)

- Fix : Include sql file with 5.3 version.
- Fix : Logout bug on 5.3 version.
- Feature : Get & save visitors information ( Analytics ) to the database.

Version 1.1 (January 02, 2017)

- Adding a new version for Laravel 5.3.

Version 1.0 (December 27, 2016)

- Release of this script on Codecanyon.
- Built with Laravel 5.2.