ATK4 What is the procedure for setting up an Admin

I have setup a CRUD area on my frontendAPI.php file (testing my models)... and I even managed to secure it. I would like to do this the proper way... I would like to establish a separate directory/ Page for the Admins. Please advise on this.

Still new at this but I'm trying to do the same for a news page, think i've got the login part working but having problems with the CRUD (will post a question on it shortly) - i have a table to populate with data from an rss feed (but will be manually populated with a CRUD to start with) and then have a page on the front end to pull out the details using views to format each news story.

Create a new directory called /page/Admin

Create a new file here based on the function e.g. news.php containing

class page_admin_news extends Page {
function init(){
    parent::init();
    $p=$this;

    $crud=$p->add('CRUD');

    $g=$crud->setModel('News');
    if($crud->grid)
           $crud->grid->addPaginator(30);
    }
}

In Frontend.php, you need to enable the login - for an admin only access, the BasicAuth may be sufficient but there are also classes to use a database to obtain username and password infromation e.g. for a membership site - heres the basic one. // If you wish to restrict access to your pages, use BasicAuth class $auth=$this->add('BasicAuth') ->allow('demo','demo') ;

You need to modify Frontend.php to enable pages that can be viewed without being logged in

$auth->allowPage('index');
$auth->allowPage('news');
$auth->allowPage('links');
$auth->allowPage('About');
if (!$auth->isPageAllowed($this->api->page))
{
   $auth->check();
}

And also in Frontend.php, you need to create a different menu if logged in. Note the login and logout pages dont actually exist.

if ($auth->isLoggedIn())
{
  $this->add('Menu',null,'Menu')
    ->addMenuitem('News','admin_news')
    ->addMenuitem('logout')
  ;
} else {
  $this->add('Menu',null,'Menu')
    ->addMenuitem('News','news')
    ->addMenuitem('Links','links')
    ->addMenuItem('About')
    ->addMenuItem('Login')
    ;
}

When you login, it goes to page/index.php by default so if you want it to redirect to a particular page when you log in so you can add this to page/index.php

class page_index extends Page {
function init(){
  parent::init();
  $p=$this;

  if($this->api->auth->isLoggedIn())
    $this->api->redirect('admin_news');

Hope that helps.

Trev