Question

Whats difference in using anchor in CodeIgniter instead of using traditional html a href tag?
Should I use anchor in Views or HTML a href?
Thanks

Answer 1

I honestly feel like there is minimal difference. I personally use html anchor because it uses more html.

If you want to add context path inside a view, just do this:

<a href="<?=site_url('path/name');?>">anchor</a>

However, one of the advantages of using codeigniter anchor is that, if you want to build contents dynamically:

for($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
   $anchors[] = anchor('path/name', 'anchor');
}

is easier than

for($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
   $anchors[] = '<a href="'.site_url('path/name').'">anchor</a>';
}

Do you see the difference? 🙂