Question

I recently started using codeIgniter and I am stuck in a problem.

I’ve two files in my view folder

1. index.php
2. profile.php

When I go to the url http://localhost/php/ci/index.php/ it shows my index.php page and everything is fine.

But when I go to http://localhost/php/ci/profile.php/ it says

The requested url was not found on server.

Why is this happening what’s the problem ??

My Controller Files Names Are:

1. home_control.php
2. profile_control.php

home_control will interact with index.php and profile_control will interact with profile.php.

Answer 1

You have a fundamental flaw in your MVC understanding. The index.php file sitting in your document root (that is, your www directory) is actually responsible for getting CodeIgniter started on every request. That is the index.php that you are seeing in the URL bar.

You are confusing said index.php with the index.php that you fabricated inside of the views folder. Never will you be able to create a file inside of your views folder and be able to immediately access it using the URL bar. You must go through a controller.

If you access http://localhost/php/ci/index.php/profile_control and controllers/profile_control.php contains::

<?php
class Profile_control extends CI_Controller{
    function __construct(){
        parent::__construct();
    }
    function index(){
        $this->load->view('profile')
    }
}

You will be able to see the contents inside of views/profile.php

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