Developer Resource Articles

Learn how to use Seamless Substitution to add an image to a system page

Changing Icons

Changing the Name of the Application Folder

Learn how to use Seamless Substitution to swap out icons that are used in Nova

Sometimes you may want to change the name of the application folder to align with the name of your sim. Learn how here.

Changing the Index File

If you need to change the index file to avoid conflicts with other software, this guide will show you how

Creating a New Page

Nova comes with the basics, but how do you go about creating an all new page?

Configuring Nova

Nova comes with several advanced config options to alter the way it performs

Configuring CodeIgniter

Nova 1 Skinning Developer Resource

CodeIgniter can be configured in a variety of ways to alter the way things work. Learn how to configure it here.

Views

What is a view?

Libraries

When we talk about PHP libraries, what do we mean?

An Introduction to Models

Learn what a model is and some basic usage

Adding Methods to a Model

Learn how to add your own methods to an existing model in Nova

Working with Model Data

Models can return their data in a variety of ways. Learn the different ways and how to use the data.

Extending Nova: An Introduction

Extending Nova: Templates & Views, Oh My!

Let's start to talk about extending Nova with a brief introduction

With a skeleton set up, let's fill it out with a view and some data

Extending Nova: Models, Ooh La La!

Extending Nova: Models, Ooh La La! Part 2

Static pages are fine, but let's start interacting with a database to make our page more dynamic

Extending Nova: Controller, Meet View

After doing some basic interaction with the database, let's hook up our new model method to our controller

With data coming out of the database and into our controller, let's create a view to display the information

Extending Nova: Replacing Pages

Now that we've laid a good foundation for extending Nova, let's dive into the topic of replacing existing pages

Controllers