How to display a simple html page in fuel admin?

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• admin

  December 2018

  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

  December 2018

  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

  December 2018

  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.