How to make custom pages within Twill?

[adam-jones-net]

I need a few custom pages within my Twill admin that allow me to write whatever html/php that I want. In other words, pages that use the twill page header and footer and detect that I've logged in to twill in order to access them. Yet everything in between the header/footer is my own content.

Does anyone have code at hand to do this ? There was something about this on the old spectrum chart forum but I can't find it now.

[ifox]

Hi @Arkid, does this answer your needs: https://twill.io/docs/custom-cms-pages/ ?

[adam-jones-net]

I can confirm that its 2.7.0

[ifox]

Thank you. Did you customize anything regarding Twill's exception handler?

[adam-jones-net]

I don't believe so but its a long time ago that I made the site. Anywhere obvious I should check ? Just to clarify; the redirecting to login works fine for all other twill page urls I've tried.

[adam-jones-net]

@ifox I've just made a totally fresh Laravel/Twill install (Laravel 8/Twill 2.7). I created a custom page by the book as per the documentation and it's exactly the same. So this is either classifiable as a bug or maybe some detail that is missing from the instructions for creating custom pages so that this gets handled properly?

[ifox]

@Arkid thanks for checking further. We're going to look into this. In the meantime, you can check the discussion on this PR to understand why this is happening: #1449.

[pboivin]

Hi @Arkid, just a random thought, can you verify that your controller extends A17\Twill\Http\Controllers\Admin\Controller? I think the example in the docs uses a controller that doesn't extend anything. This might be the problem.

[adam-jones-net]

Bingo thanks @ifox that was it! :) Can this be updated in the manual ?

What I now have is...

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Admin;
use A17\Twill\Http\Controllers\Admin\Controller as BaseController;

class CustomPageController extends BaseController {
    public function show()
    {
        return view('admin.customPage');
    }
}