PHP Admin Dashboard Starter Kit

Overview

Skip the boring first week of every project. This starter kit gives you a working admin area built with plain PHP 8, PDO and MySQL, so it runs on ordinary shared hosting. The code is small, commented and easy to extend with your own modules.

Key features

• Secure login with password_hash(), session hardening and login throttling
• User management: create, edit, deactivate and soft-delete users
• Two roles out of the box (admin and staff) with simple permission checks
• CSRF tokens on every form and prepared statements for every query
• Responsive dashboard layout with sidebar navigation (plain CSS, no framework)
• Activity log of important admin actions
• Single config file and a one-step SQL installer

What’s included

• Full PHP source code (public/, src/, views/)
• database.sql schema with a first admin user
• README with setup steps and an extension guide
• LICENSE.txt with the Developer licence terms

Compatibility & requirements

PHP 8.1+ with PDO MySQL, MySQL 5.7+ / MariaDB 10.3+, any Apache or LiteSpeed shared hosting

Licence

Developer licence (1 developer, unlimited own & client projects). One developer may use the code in unlimited end products for themselves or their clients.

You may:

• Use and modify the code in unlimited websites or applications for yourself or clients
• Deploy finished projects on any number of servers
• Charge clients for the finished project you build

You may not:

• Reselling or redistributing the source code as a template, starter kit or script
• Publishing the source code in public repositories
• Sharing one licence within a team — each developer needs a licence

Full terms are included in the download (LICENSE.txt) and on our Licence Information page.