Question

I have taken over a project written in CodeIgniter, which I have never used before. I have added a new file to views/pages called features.php, and have read on the internet that to make it accessible, I need to create a function in the controller file that will render the page.

I have tried the following:

public function features()
{
    $this->render('template', 'pages/features');
}

However, when I try to open features.php, it gives me 404. How can I fix that?

Update 1 – Class

Here is the controller’s class code:

class Pages extends MY_Controller {

function __construct()
{
    parent::__construct();
    $this->load->model('setting_model', 'setting');
    $this->load->model('order_model', 'order');
    $this->load->model('page_model', 'page');
    $this->load->library('form_validation');
    $this->load->helper(array('inflector', 'string'));
}

public function index()
{
    $settings = $this->setting->get_settings();
    $data['document_price'] = $settings->document_price;
    $this->render('template', 'pages/index', $data); 
}

    //This works fine
public function about_us()
{
    $this->render('template', 'pages/about_us');
}

    //Here is the problem, although it follows the same pattern as about_us()
public function features()
{
    $this->render('template', 'pages/features');
}



}

Answer 1

As you are using $this->render I guess you are using the template library. I think you should be using:

public function features()
{
   $this->template->set_template('template');
   $this->template->write_view('pages/features');    
   $this->template->render();
}