Control Panel Homepage Hooks

Can anyone help with this?

Greetings,

Could you elaborate a bit more on what you would like to achieve? =)

On the control panel homepage there are various panels shown on the left and right hand side. For example there is a site statistics table on one side. I would like to add a customised table of data underneath the two sides.

I have managed to work the control_panel_home_page hook but this only adds details to the top of the homepage. I am confused on how the control_panel_home_page_left_option or the control_panel_home_page_right_option hooks work. The details available (http://expressionengine.com/developers/extension_hooks/) don’t ellaborate much.

Apparently I need to add a method to my extension but am unsure of the syntax to achieve this.

Can you help with this?

Sorry about the delay. Would this be one large frame spanning the page at the bottom, or two individual frames on the left and right side?

Also, a suggestion would be to write a simple extension using one of the hooks that just returns a generic string like ‘hi!’. You could change the hook and see each time where the string appears.

I’d like to get it working so that the individual frames on either side appear. I’ve managed to get an extended frame at the top to appear but I’m having trouble getting the hook to work for the right and left frames.

Could you elaborate a bit more on ‘having trouble’? Is there an error, are you unsure of a how to return data, etc..

I can get the control_panel_home_page hook to work in an extension.

I can’t get the control_panel_home_page_left_option or the control_panel_home_page_right_option hooks working.

Nothing appears when I use either of these two hooks.

It says in the documentation for these two hooks that I need to define a method.

http://expressionengine.com/developers/extension_hooks/control_panel_home_page_left_option/ http://expressionengine.com/developers/extension_hooks/control_panel_home_page_right_option/

Do you know the syntax to define these methods?

I think this is the reason for it not working.

I was able to dig up this thread http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/32218/ which has the answer within it. You need to get the method into the the $left or $right array, which occurs starting at line 220 of cp.home.php. Let us know if you have any questions!

Got it working. Thanks Justin.

Glad to hear we could figure that one out! =) Let us know if you have any questions at all.