Professional CodeIgniter, Thomas Myer
Chapter 6: Creating a Dashboard
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Figure 6-3
When you ' re all done, upload your files and log in to the dashboard. You should see a home page that is
similar to what ' s pictured in Figure 6 - 3 .
It ' s certainly not flashy, but it ' s functional and clean. Of course, if you were to click on any of those links,
none of them would work, so it ' s time to start filling in the gaps in the system.
But before you do that, you will create a simple way to allow users to log out.
Creating a Logout Function
Creating a logout function is very easy. In this particular case, the logout links are pointed at admin/
dashboard/logout. All you need to do then is create a
logout()
function in your admin/dashboard
controller that destroys the CodeIgniter session and then redirects users back to the welcome/verify page.
function logout(){
unset($_SESSION[`userid']);
unset($_SESSION[`username']);
$this-
>
session-
>
set_flashdata(`error',"You've been logged out!");
redirect(`welcome/verify','refresh');
}
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