Modifying ACP home completely (without core edits?)

[Tom K.]

I'm doing some work for a multiforum host, and we want to modify the ACP home to remove the server information, and add a table below it. Now I've got it all to work, but with the core file edited (/admin/modules/home/home.php)

Now, is there any way to do it without a core edit? The only way I could think of was to make a plugin that runs code on the admin_home_index_start and get the function to runn all of the rest of the code in index.php (with our modifications) (including the run_hooks() statements) and the die();. But that really isn't very elegant

Am I overlooking something really simple here?

Thanks

[Jammerx2]

It would depend on what modifications you want. One way would be to use the admin_home_index_begin hook and just set $mybb->input['action'] to anything and remake the page the way you want it.

[Tom K.]

But I want to modify the default page

Also, I don't just want to add things, but also remove some stuff that is there

[Jammerx2]

And what I said before should allow you to do that.

[Tom K.]

ahhh, so set the action to "newhome" or something, then create a custom page for that? I see what you mean now