Question

I’m trying to set up a website using MVC, but I’m stuck at the very beginning.

In project0/application/controllers I have a pages.php file which looks like:

<?php

class Pages extends CI_Controller {

public function view($page = 'home')
{

if (!file_exists('application/views/pages/'.$page.'.php'))
{
    // Whoops, we don't have a page for that!
    show_404();
}

$data['title'] = ucfirst($page); // Capitalize the first letter

$this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
$this->load->view('pages/'.$page, $data);
$this->load->view('templates/footer', $data);

}
}

and in project0/application/views/pages two files named home.php and about.php, containing a “Hello world”.

When I want to visit http://project0/index.php/pages/view/about, it gives me the 404 error: it seems the home.php or about.php files are not existing.

Can somebody help me out?

Answer 1

In your script, try a getcwd(); and then double check the results from that (your current working directory) against the relative path 'application/views/pages/'.$page.'.php'. I would guess that you’re not looking for your page in the directory you think you are.