Question

<script src="<?php echo site_url('bootstrapper/jqTimer'); ?>"></script>

So I’ve tried to call the controller below using the script above but I get error not found. Any ideas as to why this method is not working?

function jqTimer() {
    $this->load->view("jquery.timers.js");
}

Answer 1

When loading javascript with a <script> tag, the src attribute is expecting a file name to a js file. You’re giving it a path to a controller method in your CI install.

What you need to do is put the jquery.timers.js file in the public_html folder and access it from there:

// assuming you have the script in a [javascripts] folder inside [public_html]
<script src="<?php echo site_url('javascripts/jquery.timers.js'); ?>"></script>

If you’d prefer to load your javascript through views, then you need to do this instead:

<script><?php echo $this->load->view("jquery.timers.js", "", TRUE); ?></script>

This will echo out the contents of the view file between the <script> tags for embedded javascript. (passing TRUE as the third parameter returns the content of the file, so you can echo it out)