The hardest part I’m having with learning Codeigniter is the URI and URL ‘theory’ if you will.
I followed the original tutorial concerning static pages, and now the code seems to mess EVERY single link up except the main nav bar, requiring me to constantly add routing parameters. I figure I must be doing something wrong.
In my controller, I currently have this code, based off the tutorial:
public function view($page = 'home') {}
My folder structure is:
+ applications
+ views
- welcome.php
+ main
+ css
+ js
- home.php
- about.php
- etc.php
I should point out that the welcome.php page is for the login page. On that page, a link will direct you to home.php (main/home/)
My routing code looks like this:
$route['default_controller'] = 'welcome';
$route['main/(:any)'] = 'main/view/$1';
$route['main/home/home'] = 'main/view/$1';
$route['404_override'] = '';
As you can see, I already had to put a bandaid on it with the <code>$route['main/home/home'] = 'main/view/$1';</code> portion, due to the fact that clicking on “home” while already on the home page would result in linking to main/home/home/ displaying my nav bar, and creating a brand new set of missing links labeled, main/home/about/
In short, I am now trying to reference a .js file and a .css file, but even though the links correctly point to /main/css/style.css it does not recognize it.
Here is my view code for the header (where i load my .css and .js)
<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $title ?> - TownBuilder - Prototype</title>
<link href="css/structure.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/script.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<ul>
<li> <a href="profile"><?php echo $username ?></a></li>
<li>Account</li>
</ul>
</header>
Any advice on how to set up routing so that it works correctly?
I think you should add the css/js file on the root directory(outsite of the application folder crete a folder called css) as CI has .htaccess files that deny all access to the application folder. You can only include those files from within your scripts.