TIPS How to hide the top menu in FreePBX gui

[paulnye]

I need to give someone access to the CDR reports module in FreePBX 2.11 but I dont want them to see the top menu (admin, applications, connectivity etc)
Is there a way I can give them a link just to the CDR reports module frame?

 

[billsimon]

You can make a custom page in the /var/www/html/admin with some bare minimum initialization of FreePBX and loading of the cdr module, like this:

<?php
 
// Bypass auth.
$bootstrap_settings['freepbx_auth']    = false;
 
// Initialize
if (!@include_once(getenv('FREEPBX_CONF') ? getenv('FREEPBX_CONF') : '/etc/freepbx.conf')) {
        include_once('/etc/asterisk/freepbx.conf');
}
 
// Print the header/CSS
include('views/header.php');
 
// Print CDR CSS
$module_name = 'cdr';
echo framework_include_css();
 
// fix margins
echo "<style type=text/css>body { margin-left:20px; margin-right:20px; }</style>";
// the page
include('modules/cdr/page.cdr.php');
 
?>

Beware! Caution! Notice the "bypass auth" comment in the code. This simple loader for the cdr module basically bypasses any and all safeties that FreePBX has in place. Also, I don't know that every part of the page will work perfectly, so fixing up anything that doesn't work is up to you. But the basic search and display works for me:

 

[billsimon]

PS: If you want your customer to get to this page but don't want to give them the BasicAuth user/password used to access your entire server, you can either make this page unauthenticated by Apache (another maybe) or add an Apache directive and specific user for just this page.

 

[paulnye]

Thanks billsimon
For CDR it worked perfectly. I would like to also give them 'menuless' access to Asternic CDR also, which is an alternative FreePBX CDR module. So I copied your code and modified the 2 places that had the string 'cdr' and replaced with 'asternic_cdr'. It loads the Asternic CDR page without menus however the page formatting is missing, and the buttons dont work. Is it something simple or a big deal to get this one working do you think?

 

[billsimon]

If the formatting is not right, then some CSS is not being loaded. For the buttons, they might be JavaScript so you'll have to see where that source is and pull it in to the loader as well. I haven't used Asternic CDR and can't say whether these steps will be trivial or challenging.

 

[james]

THERE BE DRAGONS!!

This is NOT the way to go about this.

Admin> Administrators>Add Administrator
Fill in the access permissions as you see fit.

There in no need to be "hacky" when there are proper facilities in place. There is no need to go all "Koolaid Man" through the wall when you can simply use the door and lock it behind you.

 

[paulnye]

Thanks for pointing out Admin> Administrators>Add Administrator
So I added a user called 'cdr' and gave only permission to the Asternic CDR module, thats it.. but when I open FreePBX in my browser I enter the un+pwd for 'cdr' it fails. I even tried the direct URL - /admin/config.php?display=asternic_cdr

 

[james]

perhaps the best of both worlds http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialApacheAddingLoginSiteProtection.html#MYSQL

 

[phonebuff]

Now that's a nice link --

 

[billsimon]

"hacky" ... "Koolaid Man"

Are you calling me a hacky Kool-Aid Man? I challenge you to a duel. Now where'd I put my size-80 gun belt?

 

[james]

 

[wardmundy]

I understand this is being addressed directly in FreePBX 12.

 

[james]

wardmundy can you clarify?

 

[balefireeyed]

@paulnye

Did you ever get asternic CDR reports to work well with this?

 

[paulnye]

Asternic CDR works great but never found a way to hide the top menu