Adding admin area

The short version is your route is looking for the Admin Controller with a 'dashboard' Method.  It should be looking for the Admin Controller with the View Method.  You're close, almost there.


To expand and explain a bit on previous answers;  

I've assumed you've not removed index.php from your URL below and in application/config/config.php `base_url` = 'http://example.com'

according to your controller's default $page = 'dashboard'

PHP Code:

$route['admin'] = 'admin/view'; 


would give you the dashboard.php view when you call the URL http://example.com/index.php/admin/


To change the page, you would call something like this:

http://example.com/index.php/admin/settings
http://example.com/index.php/admin/themes

etc...

which will load the views/settings.php and views/themes.php files respectively.


Lastly, you don't *need* to define a route (unless you want to) usually, that controller would be accessible without any routes defined via:

http://example.com/index.php/admin/view
http://example.com/index.php/admin/view/dashboard
http://example.com/index.php/admin/view/settings
http://example.com/index.php/admin/view/themes

since magic routing is available all the time.  

The "magic" routing is: http://example.com/[controller]/[method]/[$param1]/[$param2]... etc

Good luck and welcome to CodeIgniter!

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