Integrating FOSUserBundle into the admin area

So far, we created a login system using FOSUserBundle and an entity manager area via SonataAdminBundle. So, the application has an admin area that has its access limits set to ROLE_ADMIN people only. Before creating a dashboard for users so that they can manage their workspaces, projects, tasks, and team members, there is one last important thing that needs to be done. An admin should be able to manage all users from the backend.

The Sonata project comes with a bundle that integrates FOSUserBundle into the admin area. It is called SonataUserBundle that basically adds some features to FOSUserBundle and makes it part of the backend.

Installing SonataUserBundle

Start by downloading and installing it:

$ composer require sonata-project/user-bundle 'dev-master'

Note

The installation might fail because of datagrid-bundle. If you are prompted for this issue, install datagrid-bundle first then continue with user-bundle:

composer require sonata-project/datagrid...