How to display a simple html page in fuel admin?

marcus_at_localhost

I want to display a changelog in the fuel backend so I created a file here:

fuel\modules\fuel\views\changelog.php

<div id="fuel_main_content_inner">

    <?php echo file_get_contents(APPPATH.'/changelog.md') ?>

</div>

But calling /fuel/changelog just gives me a 404

How can a make this page available and in the best case create a link in the Tools menu.

Or do I have to create an advanced Modul for that?

Thanks! m.

admin

It would probably be best to create an advanced module for that instead of updating the core fuel/modules/fuel files.

Alternatively, you could create a controller and route in your main application/controllers directory and application/config/routes.php respectively. The controller can inherit from the Fuel_base_controller.php (which will lock the public out and require you to be logged in) and have a method that renders that page.

To add the menu item, you can add the item to the fuel/application/config/MY_fuel.php file under the $nav['tools'] array where the key is the route path and the value is the label of the menu item.

marcus_at_localhost

I think the Advanced Module is the way to go, so I just extended the user_guide Module for that. Perfect place.

Thanks for pointing out the alternative way. Good to know.

marcus_at_localhost

Just for the record, in case someone is searching for that:

I replaced the dashboard with the other method you pointed out.

fuel/application/config/routes.php

$route['default_controller'] = 'fuel/page_router';
$route['404_override'] = 'fuel/page_router';
$route['translate_uri_dashes'] = FALSE;

/*  
| Uncomment this line if you want to use the automatically generated sitemap based on your navigation.
| To modify the sitemap.xml, go to the views/sitemap_xml.php file.
*/ 
//$route['sitemap.xml'] = 'sitemap_xml';

include(MODULES_PATH.'/fuel/config/fuel_routes.php');

// overwrite dashboard to find new /application/controllers/Dashboard.php
$route['fuel/dashboard'] = 'dashboard';
$route['fuel/dashboard/ajax'] = 'dashboard/ajax';

/application/controllers/Dashboard.php (with my custom code for fuel dashboard modules and whatever else should appear on the dashboard

<?php
require_once(FUEL_PATH.'/libraries/Fuel_base_controller.php');

class Dashboard extends Fuel_base_controller {

    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        $this->js_controller = 'fuel.controller.DashboardController';
    }

    public function index()
    {
        if (is_ajax())
        {
            $this->ajax();
        }
        else
        {
            $this->fuel->load_model('fuel_users');
            $auth_user = $this->fuel->auth->user_data();
            $user = $this->fuel_users_model->find_by_key($auth_user['id'], 'array');
            $vars['change_pwd'] = ($user['password'] == $this->fuel_users_model->salted_password_hash($this->config->item('default_pwd', 'fuel'), $user['salt']));

            $dashboards = $this->fuel->admin->dashboards();

            $vars['dashboards'] = $dashboards;
            $crumbs = array('' => 'Dashboard');
            $this->fuel->admin->set_titlebar($crumbs, 'ico_dashboard');
            // my own templates
            $this->fuel->admin->render('_admin/dashboard', $vars, Fuel_admin::DISPLAY_NO_ACTION);
        }
    }

    /* need to be outside of index so when you click back button it will not show the ajax */
    public function ajax()
    {
        if (is_ajax())
        {
            $this->load->module_model(FUEL_FOLDER, 'fuel_logs_model');
            $vars['latest_activity'] = $this->fuel_logs_model->latest_activity(10);

            // my own templates
            $this->load->module_view('app', '_admin/dashboard_ajax', $vars);
        }
    }
}

and my custom dashboard views/templates

application/views/_admin/dashboard_ajax.php (renders fuel specific dashboard items like RSS Feed, Last Modified etc. and application/views/_admin/dashboard.php (the page itself) are copied from fuel/modules/fuel/views/* and modified with different CSS classes or whatever else I wanted to change.