Adding admin area

Hi,

I created the frontend of my app and now I'd like to create an admin dashboard.

I created an Admin.php controller with the following content:

PHP Code:

<?php

class Admin extends CI_Controller
{
      public function view($page = 'dashboard')
      {
            if(!file_exists(APPPATH . 'views/admin/' . $page . '.php')) {
                  show_404();
            }

            
            $data['title'] = ucfirst($page);

            $this->load->view('templates/back/admin_header');
            $this->load->view('admin/' . $page, $data);
            $this->load->view('templates/back/admin_footer');
      }
} 


I created  dashboard.php in views/admin

but I cannot access the page. If i try to access it like this: http://localhost:8080/ci/admin/view/dashboard
then it's ok, but I'd like to access the admin dashboard like this: http://localhost:8080/ci/admin/

I guess my route is incorrect, I used this:

PHP Code:

$route['admin'] = 'admin/dashboard'; 


i'm new to CI and I'm just tinkering with it to learn, but I can't figure this out. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks