Professional CodeIgniter, Thomas Myer
Chapter 6: Creating a Dashboard
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#globalnav li a {
float: left;
padding: 10px 12px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #999;
border: none;
}
#globalnav li form{
padding:3px 0px;
}
Creating a Basic admin_home View
Now that the basic admin template is built along with the supporting header and footer subviews and
the CSS, it ' s time to create a basic view that will allow the administrative user to quickly access all the
tools available to them.
At first, this may seem a bit silly because links in the global nav seem to be doing the same thing. This is
really an opportunity to provide some context on those links. For your purposes, a bullet list with bold
links and a bit of explanation will do just fine. Again, you ' ll make good use of the
anchor()
function.
<
ul
>
<
li
>
<
b
>
<
?php echo anchor("admin/categories/","Manage Categories");?
>
.
<
/b
>
<
br/
>
Create, edit, delete and manage product categories on your online store.
<
/li
>
<
br/
>
<
li
>
<
b
>
<
?php echo anchor("admin/products/","Manage Products");?
>
.
<
/b
>
<
br/
>
Create, edit, delete and manage products on your online store.
<
/li
>
<
br/
>
<
li
>
<
b
>
<
?php echo anchor("admin/admins/","Manage Users");?
>
.
<
/b
>
<
br/
>
Create, edit, delete and manage users who can access this dashboard.
<
/li
>
<
br/
>
<
li
>
<
b
>
<
?php echo anchor("admin/dashboard/logout/","Logout");?
>
.
<
/b
>
<
br/
>
Exit this dashboard when you're done.
<
/li
>
<
br/
>
<
/ul
>
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