Link to static page in CodeIgniter - php

Question

I'm new to PHP and CodeIgniter, and I'm having trouble setting up the routing of static pages in my CodeIgniter app.
I have the About Us | Contact Us | Privacy Policy and many other pages in my footer, which when the user clicks, should go to a url like
mysite.com\about
mysite.com\contact
mysite.com\privacy
You get the gist..
Here's what I've done in the footer div in the views folder
About |
Contact Us |
Privacy |
Terms of Use
Here's the function in a controller Home
public function staticpages($page)
{
if ( ! file_exists(APPPATH.'application/views/'.$page.'.html'))
{
// Whoops, we don't have a page for that!
show_404();
}
$data['title'] = ucfirst($page); // Capitalize the first letter
$this->load->view($page, $data);
}
The static pages are just pure HTML content, with <p> fields and no dynamic or javascript stuff. So I have them saved as .html; contact.html, about.html and so on.
I just want to load those pages' content in a contentbody div I have created, between the header and the footer, and that's the only thing that changes in the whole site for whatever the user clicks.
When I goto http://localhost/myapp/home/staticpages/about
I get the
404 Not Found error
The requested URL /dissekted/home/staticpages/about was not found on this server.
And it's the one that the browser throws.

Answer 1

config your base url
$config['base_url'] =
load the helper
first method
$this->load->helper('url');
or second method
autoload it by changing application/config/autoload.php
use with
$this->config->base_url();
first check with echo you are getting base url or not
<?php echo base_url(); ?>
and use with your static link
<a href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>/static_file " />static link</a>
ok
make this inside in controllers function like
public function static ()
{
$this->load->view('static.html');
}

Answer 2

Check your base URL in the config file and make sure you have the final / on the path:
$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/myapp/'
Also, I use the anchor() function from the URL Helper to take create my links.
That takes care of forming the links correctly and takes into account the base URL.

Answer 3

create privacy.php in view folder and use below code to display it.
$this->load->view('page_name'); no need to use extension like static.php.
function privacy() {`enter code here`
$data['meta_title'] = 'Privacy Policy';
$data['title'] = 'Privacy Policy';
$data['main'] = 'root/privacy';
$this->load->vars($data);
$this->load->view($this->template or page_name);
}