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  370. <h1>Static pages<a class="headerlink" href="#static-pages" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
  371. <p><strong>Note:</strong> This tutorial assumes you’ve downloaded CodeIgniter and
  372. <a class="reference internal" href="../installation/index.html"><span class="doc">installed the framework</span></a> in your
  373. development environment.</p>
  374. <p>The first thing you’re going to do is set up a <strong>controller</strong> to handle
  375. static pages. A controller is simply a class that helps delegate work.
  376. It is the glue of your web application.</p>
  377. <p>For example, when a call is made to:</p>
  378. <blockquote>
  379. <div><a class="reference external" href="http://example.com/news/latest/10">http://example.com/news/latest/10</a></div></blockquote>
  380. <p>We might imagine that there is a controller named “news”. The method
  381. being called on news would be “latest”. The news method’s job could be to
  382. grab 10 news items, and render them on the page. Very often in MVC,
  383. you’ll see URL patterns that match:</p>
  384. <blockquote>
  385. <div><a class="reference external" href="http://example.com/[controller-class]/[controller-method]/[arguments">http://example.com/[controller-class]/[controller-method]/[arguments</a>]</div></blockquote>
  386. <p>As URL schemes become more complex, this may change. But for now, this
  387. is all we will need to know.</p>
  388. <p>Create a file at <em>application/controllers/Pages.php</em> with the following
  389. code.</p>
  390. <div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
  391. <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">Pages</span> <span class="k">extends</span> <span class="nx">CI_Controller</span> <span class="p">{</span>
  392. <span class="k">public</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$page</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;home&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
  393. <span class="p">{</span>
  394. <span class="p">}</span>
  395. <span class="p">}</span>
  396. </pre></div>
  397. </div>
  398. <p>You have created a class named <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Pages</span></code>, with a view method that accepts
  399. one argument named <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$page</span></code>. The <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Pages</span></code> class is extending the
  400. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CI_Controller</span></code> class. This means that the new pages class can access the
  401. methods and variables defined in the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CI_Controller</span></code> class
  402. (<em>system/core/Controller.php</em>).</p>
  403. <p>The <strong>controller is what will become the center of every request</strong> to
  404. your web application. In very technical CodeIgniter discussions, it may
  405. be referred to as the <em>super object</em>. Like any php class, you refer to
  406. it within your controllers as <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$this</span></code>. Referring to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$this</span></code> is how
  407. you will load libraries, views, and generally command the framework.</p>
  408. <p>Now you’ve created your first method, it’s time to make some basic page
  409. templates. We will be creating two “views” (page templates) that act as
  410. our page footer and header.</p>
  411. <p>Create the header at <em>application/views/templates/header.php</em> and add
  412. the following code:</p>
  413. <div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">html</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
  414. <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">head</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
  415. <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">title</span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="nx">CodeIgniter</span> <span class="nx">Tutorial</span><span class="o">&lt;/</span><span class="nx">title</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
  416. <span class="o">&lt;/</span><span class="nx">head</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
  417. <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">body</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
  418. <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">h1</span><span class="o">&gt;&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span> <span class="k">echo</span> <span class="nv">$title</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="cp">?&gt;</span><span class="p">&lt;/</span><span class="nt">h1</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
  419. </pre></div>
  420. </div>
  421. <p>The header contains the basic HTML code that you’ll want to display
  422. before loading the main view, together with a heading. It will also
  423. output the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$title</span></code> variable, which we’ll define later in the controller.
  424. Now, create a footer at <em>application/views/templates/footer.php</em> that
  425. includes the following code:</p>
  426. <div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span> <span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="nx">em</span><span class="o">&gt;&amp;</span><span class="nb">copy</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="mi">2015</span><span class="o">&lt;/</span><span class="nx">em</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
  427. <span class="o">&lt;/</span><span class="nx">body</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
  428. <span class="o">&lt;/</span><span class="nx">html</span><span class="o">&gt;</span>
  429. </pre></div>
  430. </div>
  431. <div class="section" id="adding-logic-to-the-controller">
  432. <h2>Adding logic to the controller<a class="headerlink" href="#adding-logic-to-the-controller" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
  433. <p>Earlier you set up a controller with a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">view()</span></code> method. The method
  434. accepts one parameter, which is the name of the page to be loaded. The
  435. static page templates will be located in the <em>application/views/pages/</em>
  436. directory.</p>
  437. <p>In that directory, create two files named <em>home.php</em> and <em>about.php</em>.
  438. Within those files, type some text − anything you’d like − and save them.
  439. If you like to be particularly un-original, try “Hello World!”.</p>
  440. <p>In order to load those pages, you’ll have to check whether the requested
  441. page actually exists:</p>
  442. <div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">public</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$page</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;home&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
  443. <span class="p">{</span>
  444. <span class="k">if</span> <span class="p">(</span> <span class="o">!</span> <span class="nb">file_exists</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">APPPATH</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="s1">&#39;views/pages/&#39;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="nv">$page</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="s1">&#39;.php&#39;</span><span class="p">))</span>
  445. <span class="p">{</span>
  446. <span class="c1">// Whoops, we don&#39;t have a page for that!</span>
  447. <span class="nx">show_404</span><span class="p">();</span>
  448. <span class="p">}</span>
  449. <span class="nv">$data</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;title&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">ucfirst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$page</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">// Capitalize the first letter</span>
  450. <span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">load</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;templates/header&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$data</span><span class="p">);</span>
  451. <span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">load</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;pages/&#39;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="nv">$page</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$data</span><span class="p">);</span>
  452. <span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">load</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;templates/footer&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$data</span><span class="p">);</span>
  453. <span class="p">}</span>
  454. </pre></div>
  455. </div>
  456. <p>Now, when the page does exist, it is loaded, including the header and
  457. footer, and displayed to the user. If the page doesn’t exist, a “404
  458. Page not found” error is shown.</p>
  459. <p>The first line in this method checks whether the page actually exists.
  460. PHP’s native <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">file_exists()</span></code> function is used to check whether the file
  461. is where it’s expected to be. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">show_404()</span></code> is a built-in CodeIgniter
  462. function that renders the default error page.</p>
  463. <p>In the header template, the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$title</span></code> variable was used to customize the
  464. page title. The value of title is defined in this method, but instead of
  465. assigning the value to a variable, it is assigned to the title element
  466. in the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$data</span></code> array.</p>
  467. <p>The last thing that has to be done is loading the views in the order
  468. they should be displayed. The second parameter in the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">view()</span></code> method is
  469. used to pass values to the view. Each value in the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$data</span></code> array is
  470. assigned to a variable with the name of its key. So the value of
  471. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$data['title']</span></code> in the controller is equivalent to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$title</span></code> in the
  472. view.</p>
  473. </div>
  474. <div class="section" id="routing">
  475. <h2>Routing<a class="headerlink" href="#routing" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
  476. <p>The controller is now functioning! Point your browser to
  477. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[your-site-url]index.php/pages/view</span></code> to see your page. When you visit
  478. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">index.php/pages/view/about</span></code> you’ll see the about page, again including
  479. the header and footer.</p>
  480. <p>Using custom routing rules, you have the power to map any URI to any
  481. controller and method, and break free from the normal convention:
  482. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">http://example.com/[controller-class]/[controller-method]/[arguments]</span></code></p>
  483. <p>Let’s do that. Open the routing file located at
  484. <em>application/config/routes.php</em> and add the following two lines.
  485. Remove all other code that sets any element in the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$route</span></code> array.</p>
  486. <div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$route</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;default_controller&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;pages/view&#39;</span><span class="p">;</span>
  487. <span class="nv">$route</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;(:any)&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;pages/view/$1&#39;</span><span class="p">;</span>
  488. </pre></div>
  489. </div>
  490. <p>CodeIgniter reads its routing rules from top to bottom and routes the
  491. request to the first matching rule. Each rule is a regular expression
  492. (left-side) mapped to a controller and method name separated by slashes
  493. (right-side). When a request comes in, CodeIgniter looks for the first
  494. match, and calls the appropriate controller and method, possibly with
  495. arguments.</p>
  496. <p>More information about routing can be found in the URI Routing
  497. <a class="reference internal" href="../general/routing.html"><span class="doc">documentation</span></a>.</p>
  498. <p>Here, the second rule in the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$route</span></code> array matches <strong>any</strong> request
  499. using the wildcard string <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">(:any)</span></code>. and passes the parameter to the
  500. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">view()</span></code> method of the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Pages</span></code> class.</p>
  501. <p>Now visit <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">index.php/about</span></code>. Did it get routed correctly to the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">view()</span></code>
  502. method in the pages controller? Awesome!</p>
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