CodeIgniter + CSS
Anything in the /application folder of CodeIgniter should be considered out-of-bounds. For the best security, you should actually consider keeping /application above your www or public_html folder in a structure such as this:
– application – controllers – models – views – ...– system – core – libraries – ...– public_html – index.phpThis makes your application code safer.
I’d advise creating your client-side scripts and CSS in a public folder. For example public_html/css and public_html/js. Or, if you wanted to go down the theme route, possibly name each CSS file as the name of the theme, so you’d have css/theme1.css and css/theme2.css.
If your site will always work from the root of a domain, then you can just use:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/layout.css" media="screen" />But if you feel that you’re going to be moving all sorts of things around, then consider preparing the file location in your controller before sending it to Smarty.
$this->load->helper('url');$this->smarty->assign('css_file', base_url("css/theme1.css"));That will return:
http://localhost/app1/css/theme.cssOr whatever your CodeIgniter URL is.
This will help to link css to codeigniter.
The link_tag is used to link resources and you can use helper function.For example html helper, url helper, email helper, etc.
In your controller you have to create a function something like
<?php class Home extends CI_Controller{ public function helper(){ $this->load->helper('html'); $this->load->view('index'); }}?>And your index.php in view folder use link_tag keyword.
<html><head><title></title><?php echo link_tag('App01/application/views/css/main.css');?></head><body> <?php ....... ?></body></html>
Try adding a symlink to your servers document root folder. (www/public_html/htdocs)
cd (document root folder)ln -s (/App01/application/views/css) .This way you can access your css folder and keep the current structure.