Introduction

Dragino use Luci to generate its Web Interface. Luci mainly CBI models to manage the Linux Config files. Detail of the use/programm of Luci can refer below links:

• Luci Official Site
• Quick Link to CBI model
• Quick Link to Luci API functions

Understand how to genetate a page

Each web page in Luci is an Entry. The Entry is defined in the luci controller directory: /usr/lib/lua/luci/controller. For example, the /usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/admin includes all the defination of the administrator Web UI.

When generate a Web Page, the entry may:

• Call a simple action
• Call a CBI model to manage Linux configuration.
• Call a normal HTML template

A detail of how to use the Entry and some basic examples, can be found at this link:HowTo: Write Modules

Notice: After submit a change on controller files, user has to remove the luci cache files (under /var/luci-*) to take affect.

More Examples

Dragino software includes the admin-full luci modules which includes the administrator web interface and lots of source code /examples.User can easily to test and change the Luci Web Interface by modifying these files. The main files location are:

• Controller: /usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/admin
• CBI module: /usr/lib/lua/luci/model/cbi
• HTML-Template: /usr/lib/lua/luci/view