Question

I’m using CodeIgniter and I’m loading a view by doing $this->load->view('index').

My directory looks like this

• application
• assets/css/bootstrap.css

Inside the view (in applications/views/index.php) I’m referencing inside the head tags like this:

<link href="/assets/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">

But the controller only loads the elements of html without any styles of Bootstrap css. Am I referencing the wrong way?

Answer 1

You can use the url helper, site_url() function makes it easy:

<link href="<?php echo site_url('assets/css/bootstrap.css'); ?>" >

You can also use the HTML helper and the link_tag() function:

echo link_tag('assets/css/bootstrap.css');

To use the helpers, add these lines in your controller constructor:

$this->load->helper('url');
$this->load->helper('html');

Alternatively, you can globally load these helpers in your application/config/autoload.php file. See http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/autoloader.html for more information.