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| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/database/query_builder.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/general/security.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/helpers/form_helper.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/installation/troubleshooting.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_300.rst | 67 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrading.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/libraries/security.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/libraries/sessions.rst | 42 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/tutorial/create_news_items.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/tutorial/news_section.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/tutorial/static_pages.rst | 105 |
13 files changed, 153 insertions, 108 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst index 9ed55809e..42eed8034 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst @@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ Release Date: Not Released - DEPRECATED the 'mysql', 'sqlite', 'mssql' and 'pdo/dblib' (also known as 'pdo/mssql' or 'pdo/sybase') drivers. - Added **dsn** configuration setting for drivers that support DSN strings (PDO, PostgreSQL, Oracle, ODBC, CUBRID). - Added **schema** configuration setting (defaults to *public*) for drivers that might need it (currently used by PostgreSQL and ODBC). + - Added **save_queries** configuration setting to *application/config/database.php* (defaults to ``TRUE``). + - Removed **autoinit** configuration setting as it doesn't make sense to instantiate the database class but not connect to the database. - Added subdrivers support (currently only used by PDO). - Added an optional database name parameter to ``db_select()``. - Removed ``protect_identifiers()`` and renamed internal method ``_protect_identifiers()`` to it instead - it was just an alias. @@ -173,7 +175,6 @@ Release Date: Not Released - Added support for SQLite3 database driver. - Added Interbase/Firebird database support via the *ibase* driver. - Added ODBC support for ``create_database()``, ``drop_database()`` and ``drop_table()`` in :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>`. - - Added **save_queries** configuration setting to *application/config/database.php* (defaults to ``TRUE``). - Added support to binding arrays as ``IN()`` sets in ``query()``. - :doc:`Query Builder <database/query_builder>` changes include: @@ -459,7 +460,7 @@ Release Date: Not Released - Renamed internal method ``_detect_uri()`` to ``_parse_request_uri()``. - Changed ``_parse_request_uri()`` to accept absolute URIs for compatibility with HTTP/1.1 as per `RFC2616 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt>`. - Added protected method ``_parse_query_string()`` to URI paths in the the **QUERY_STRING** value, like ``_parse_request_uri()`` does. - - Changed URI string detection logic to try the **PATH_INFO** variable first when auto-detecting. + - Changed URI string detection logic to always default to **REQUEST_URI** unless configured otherwise or under CLI. - Removed methods ``_remove_url_suffix()``, ``_explode_segments()`` and moved their logic into ``_set_uri_string()``. - Removed method ``_fetch_uri_string()`` and moved its logic into the class constructor. - Removed method ``_reindex_segments()``. @@ -508,7 +509,8 @@ Release Date: Not Released - Changed internal function ``load_class()`` to accept a constructor parameter instead of (previously unused) class name prefix. - Removed default parameter value of :php:func:`is_php()`. - Added a second argument ``$double_encode`` to :php:func:`html_escape()`. - - Changed function ``config_item()`` to return NULL instead of FALSE when no value is found. + - Changed function :php:func:`config_item()` to return NULL instead of FALSE when no value is found. + - Changed function :php:func:`set_status_header()` to return immediately when run under CLI. - :doc:`Output Library <libraries/output>` changes include: @@ -661,7 +663,6 @@ Bug fixes for 3.0 - Fixed a bug (#10) - :doc:`URI Library <libraries/uri>` internal method ``_detect_uri()`` failed with paths containing a colon. - Fixed a bug (#1387) - :doc:`Query Builder <database/query_builder>` method ``from()`` didn't escape table aliases. - Fixed a bug (#520) - :doc:`Date Helper <helpers/date_helper>` function :php:func:``nice_date()`` failed when the optional second parameter is not passed. -- Fixed a bug (#167) - ``$config['permitted_uri_chars']`` didn't affect URL-encoded characters. - Fixed a bug (#318) - :doc:`Profiling Library <general/profiling>` setting *query_toggle_count* was not settable as described in the manual. - Fixed a bug (#938) - :doc:`Config Library <libraries/config>` method ``site_url()`` added a question mark to the URL string when query strings are enabled even if it already existed. - Fixed a bug (#999) - :doc:`Config Library <libraries/config>` method ``site_url()`` always appended ``$config['url_suffix']`` to the end of the URL string, regardless of whether a query string exists in it. @@ -706,7 +707,6 @@ Bug fixes for 3.0 - Fixed a bug (#50) - :doc:`Session Library <libraries/sessions>` unnecessarily stripped slashed from serialized data, making it impossible to read objects in a namespace. - Fixed a bug (#658) - :doc:`Routing <general/routing>` wildcard **:any** didn't work as advertised and matched multiple URI segments instead of all characters within a single segment. - Fixed a bug (#1938) - :doc:`Email Library <libraries/email>` removed multiple spaces inside a pre-formatted plain text message. -- Fixed a bug (#388, #705) - :doc:`URI Library <libraries/uri>` didn't apply URL-decoding to URI segments that it got from **REQUEST_URI** and/or **QUERY_STRING**. - Fixed a bug (#122) - :doc:`URI Library <libraries/uri>` method ``ruri_string()`` didn't include a directory if one is used. - Fixed a bug - :doc:`Routing Library <general/routing>` didn't properly handle *default_controller* in a subdirectory when a method is also specified. - Fixed a bug (#953) - :doc:`post_controller_constructor hook <general/hooks>` wasn't called with a *404_override*. @@ -768,6 +768,8 @@ Bug fixes for 3.0 - Fixed a bug in :doc:`Zip Library <libraries/zip>` internal method ``_get_mod_time()`` where it was not parsing result returned by ``filemtime()``. - Fixed a bug (#3161) - :doc:`Cache Library <libraries/caching>` methods `increment()`, `decrement()` didn't auto-create non-existent items when using redis and/or file storage. - Fixed a bug (#3189) - :doc:`Parser Library <libraries/parser>` used double replacement on ``key->value`` pairs, exposing a potential template injection vulnerability. +- Fixed a bug (#3573) - :doc:`Email Library <libraries/email>` violated `RFC5321 <https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5321.txt>`_ by sending 'localhost.localdomain' as a hostname. +- Fixed a bug (#3572) - ``CI_Security::_remove_evil_attributes()`` failed for large-sized inputs due to *pcre.backtrack_limit* and didn't properly match HTML tags. Version 2.2.1 ============= diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst index 074725664..d21c79e44 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/configuration.rst @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ prototype:: 'char_set' => 'utf8', 'dbcollat' => 'utf8_general_ci', 'swap_pre' => '', - 'autoinit' => TRUE, 'encrypt' => FALSE, 'compress' => FALSE, 'stricton' => FALSE, @@ -70,7 +69,6 @@ These failovers can be specified by setting the failover for a connection like t 'char_set' => 'utf8', 'dbcollat' => 'utf8_general_ci', 'swap_pre' => '', - 'autoinit' => TRUE, 'encrypt' => FALSE, 'compress' => FALSE, 'stricton' => FALSE @@ -89,7 +87,6 @@ These failovers can be specified by setting the failover for a connection like t 'char_set' => 'utf8', 'dbcollat' => 'utf8_general_ci', 'swap_pre' => '', - 'autoinit' => TRUE, 'encrypt' => FALSE, 'compress' => FALSE, 'stricton' => FALSE @@ -120,7 +117,6 @@ example, to set up a "test" environment you would do this:: 'char_set' => 'utf8', 'dbcollat' => 'utf8_general_ci', 'swap_pre' => '', - 'autoinit' => TRUE, 'compress' => FALSE, 'encrypt' => FALSE, 'stricton' => FALSE, @@ -181,8 +177,6 @@ Explanation of Values: **swap_pre** A default table prefix that should be swapped with dbprefix. This is useful for distributed applications where you might run manually written queries, and need the prefix to still be customizable by the end user. -**autoinit** Whether or not to automatically connect to the database when the library loads. If set to false, - the connection will take place prior to executing the first query. **schema** The database schema, defaults to 'public'. Used by PostgreSQL and ODBC drivers. **encrypt** Whether or not to use an encrypted connection. **compress** Whether or not to use client compression (MySQL only). diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/database/query_builder.rst b/user_guide_src/source/database/query_builder.rst index fa1e90353..9b4694710 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/database/query_builder.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/database/query_builder.rst @@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ Class Reference :param string $key: The field to search :param array $values: The values searched on - :param boolean $escape: Whether to escape values and identifiers + :param boolean $escape: Whether to escape identifiers :returns: DB_query_builder instance :rtype: object @@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ Class Reference :param string $key: The field to search :param array $values: The values searched on - :param boolean $escape: Whether to escape values and identifiers + :param boolean $escape: Whether to escape identifiers :returns: DB_query_builder instance :rtype: object @@ -1243,7 +1243,7 @@ Class Reference :param string $key: Name of field to examine :param array $values: Array of target values - :param boolean $escape: Whether to escape values and identifiers + :param boolean $escape: Whether to escape identifiers :returns: DB_query_builder instance :rtype: object @@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@ Class Reference :param string $key: Name of field to examine :param array $values: Array of target values - :param boolean $escape: Whether to escape values and identifiers + :param boolean $escape: Whether to escape identifiers :returns: DB_query_builder instance :rtype: object diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/general/security.rst b/user_guide_src/source/general/security.rst index 0c58f96b4..efc821f2b 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/general/security.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/general/security.rst @@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ with that. Please read below. provides them for you as long as you're running at least PHP version 5.3.7 (and if you don't meet that requirement - please, upgrade). + If you're one of the really unlucky people who can't even upgrade to a + more recent PHP version, use `hash_pbkdf() <http://php.net/hash_pbkdf2>`, + which we also provide in our compatibility layer. + - DO NOT ever display or send a password in plain-text format! Even to the password's owner, if you need a "Forgotten password" diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/form_helper.rst b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/form_helper.rst index 4706ee706..9ddca89bc 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/form_helper.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/form_helper.rst @@ -571,10 +571,11 @@ The following functions are available: // Would produce: </form> </div></div> -.. php:function:: set_value($field[, $default = '']) +.. php:function:: set_value($field[, $default = ''[, $html_escape = TRUE]]) :param string $field: Field name :param string $default: Default value + :param bool $html_escape: Whether to turn off HTML escaping of the value :returns: Field value :rtype: string diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/installation/troubleshooting.rst b/user_guide_src/source/installation/troubleshooting.rst index 0dfd4083f..e874bb0ec 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/installation/troubleshooting.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/installation/troubleshooting.rst @@ -4,16 +4,15 @@ Troubleshooting If you find that no matter what you put in your URL only your default page is loading, it might be that your server does not support the -PATH_INFO variable needed to serve search-engine friendly URLs. As a +REQUEST_URI variable needed to serve search-engine friendly URLs. As a first step, open your application/config/config.php file and look for the URI Protocol information. It will recommend that you try a couple alternate settings. If it still doesn't work after you've tried this you'll need to force CodeIgniter to add a question mark to your URLs. To -do this open your application/config/config.php file and change this:: +do this open your **application/config/config.php** file and change this:: $config['index_page'] = "index.php"; To this:: $config['index_page'] = "index.php?"; - diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_300.rst b/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_300.rst index 8983f3d18..90d56c25c 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_300.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_300.rst @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ############################# -Upgrading from 2.2.1 to 3.0.0 +Upgrading from 2.2.x to 3.0.0 ############################# .. note:: These upgrade notes are for a version that is yet to be released. @@ -212,26 +212,63 @@ is suitable for the command line. This of course requires another level of separ It is safe to move your old templates from _application/errors* to _application/views/errors/html*, but you'll have to copy the new _application/views/errors/cli* directory from the CodeIgniter archive. -******************************************************* -Step 9: Update your config/routes.php containing (:any) -******************************************************* +****************************************** +Step 9: Update your config/routes.php file +****************************************** -Historically, CodeIgniter has always provided the **:any** wildcard in routing, -with the intention of providing a way to match any character **within** an URI segment. +Routes containing :any +====================== + +Historically, CodeIgniter has always provided the **:any** wildcard in +routing, with the intention of providing a way to match any character +**within** an URI segment. + +However, the **:any** wildcard is actually just an alias for a regular +expression and used to be executed in that manner as **.+**. This is +considered a bug, as it also matches the / (forward slash) character, which +is the URI segment delimiter and that was never the intention. -However, the **:any** wildcard is actually just an alias for a regular expression -and used to be executed in that manner as **.+**. This is considered a bug, as it -also matches the / (forward slash) character, which is the URI segment delimiter -and that was never the intention. In CodeIgniter 3, the **:any** wildcard will now -represent **[^/]+**, so that it will not match a forward slash. +In CodeIgniter 3, the **:any** wildcard will now represent **[^/]+**, so +that it will not match a forward slash. -There are certainly many developers that have utilized this bug as an actual feature. -If you're one of them and want to match a forward slash, please use the **.+** -regular expression:: +There are certainly many developers that have utilized this bug as an actual +feature. If you're one of them and want to match a forward slash, please use +the **.+** regular expression:: (.+) // matches ANYTHING (:any) // matches any character, except for '/' +Directories and 'default_controller', '404_override' +==================================================== + +As you should know, the ``$route['default_controller']`` and +``$route['404_override']`` settings accept not only a controller name, but +also *controller/method* pairs. However, a bug in the routing logic has +made it possible for some users to use that as *directory/controller* +instead. + +As already said, this behavior was incidental and was never intended, nor +documented. If you've relied on it, your application will break with +CodeIgniter 3.0. + +Another notable change in version 3 is that 'default_controller' and +'404_override' are now applied *per directory*. To explain what this means, +let's take the following example:: + + $route['default_controller'] = 'main'; + +Now, assuming that your website is located at *example.com*, you already +know that if a user visits ``http://example.com/``, the above setting will +cause your 'Main' controller to be loaded. + +However, what happens if you have an *application/controllers/admin/* +directory and the user visits ``http://example.com/admin/``? +In CodeIgniter 3, the router will look for a 'Main' controller under the +admin/ directory as well. If not found, it will fallback to the parent +(*application/controllers/*) directory, like in version 2.x. + +The same rule applies to the '404_override' setting. + ************************************************************************* Step 10: Many functions now return NULL instead of FALSE on missing items ************************************************************************* @@ -758,7 +795,7 @@ It is now deprecated and scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+. sooner rather than later. *********************************************************** -Step 18: Check your usage of Text helper highlight_phrase() +Step 20: Check your usage of Text helper highlight_phrase() *********************************************************** The default HTML tag used by :doc:`Text Helper <../helpers/text_helper>` function diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrading.rst b/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrading.rst index ab36e9bfd..89e90e714 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrading.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrading.rst @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ upgrading from. .. toctree:: :titlesonly: - Upgrading from 2.2.1 to 3.0.0 <upgrade_300> + Upgrading from 2.2.x to 3.0.0 <upgrade_300> Upgrading from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 <upgrade_221> Upgrading from 2.1.4 to 2.2.0 <upgrade_220> Upgrading from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4 <upgrade_214> diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/security.rst b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/security.rst index 27e6e561b..ac56fc589 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/security.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/security.rst @@ -41,9 +41,6 @@ application/config/config.php file and setting this:: $config['global_xss_filtering'] = TRUE; -.. note:: If you use the form validation class, it gives you the option of - XSS filtering as well. - An optional second parameter, *is_image*, allows this function to be used to test images for potential XSS attacks, useful for file upload security. When this second parameter is set to TRUE, instead of diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/sessions.rst b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/sessions.rst index e2780683f..9fc33247b 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/libraries/sessions.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/libraries/sessions.rst @@ -433,20 +433,22 @@ all of the options and their effects. You'll find the following Session related preferences in your **application/config/config.php** file: -======================== =============== ======================================== ============================================================================================ -Preference Default Options Description -======================== =============== ======================================== ============================================================================================ -**sess_driver** files files/database/redis/memcached/*custom* The session storage driver to use. -**sess_cookie_name** ci_session [A-Za-z\_-] characters only The name used for the session cookie. -**sess_expiration** 7200 (2 hours) Time in seconds (integer) The number of seconds you would like the session to last. - If you would like a non-expiring session (until browser is closed) set the value to zero: 0 -**sess_save_path** NULL None Specifies the storage location, depends on the driver being used. -**sess_time_to_update** 300 Time in seconds (integer) This option controls how often the session class will regenerate itself and create a new - session ID. Setting it to 0 will disable session ID regeneration. -**sess_match_ip** FALSE TRUE/FALSE (boolean) Whether to validate the user's IP address when reading the session cookie. - Note that some ISPs dynamically changes the IP, so if you want a non-expiring session you - will likely set this to FALSE. -======================== =============== ======================================== ============================================================================================ +============================ =============== ======================================== ============================================================================================ +Preference Default Options Description +============================ =============== ======================================== ============================================================================================ +**sess_driver** files files/database/redis/memcached/*custom* The session storage driver to use. +**sess_cookie_name** ci_session [A-Za-z\_-] characters only The name used for the session cookie. +**sess_expiration** 7200 (2 hours) Time in seconds (integer) The number of seconds you would like the session to last. + If you would like a non-expiring session (until browser is closed) set the value to zero: 0 +**sess_save_path** NULL None Specifies the storage location, depends on the driver being used. +**sess_match_ip** FALSE TRUE/FALSE (boolean) Whether to validate the user's IP address when reading the session cookie. + Note that some ISPs dynamically changes the IP, so if you want a non-expiring session you + will likely set this to FALSE. +**sess_time_to_update** 300 Time in seconds (integer) This option controls how often the session class will regenerate itself and create a new + session ID. Setting it to 0 will disable session ID regeneration. +**sess_regenerate_destroy** FALSE TRUE/FALSE (boolean) Whether to destroy session data associated with the old session ID when auto-regenerating + the session ID. When set to FALSE, the data will be later deleted by the garbage collector. +============================ =============== ======================================== ============================================================================================ .. note:: As a last resort, the Session library will try to fetch PHP's session related INI settings, as well as legacy CI settings such as @@ -594,7 +596,7 @@ For MySQL:: `id` varchar(40) NOT NULL, `ip_address` varchar(45) NOT NULL, `timestamp` int(10) unsigned DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL, - `data` blob DEFAULT '' NOT NULL, + `data` blob NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id), KEY `ci_sessions_timestamp` (`timestamp`) ); @@ -628,6 +630,11 @@ also do the following, after creating the table:: Redis Driver ------------ +.. note:: Since Redis doesn't have a locking mechanism exposed, locks for + this driver are emulated by a separate value that is kept for up + to 5 seconds. You may experience issues if your page loads take + longer than that! + Redis is a storage engine typically used for caching and popular because of its high performance, which is also probably your reason to use the 'redis' session driver. @@ -661,6 +668,11 @@ sufficient:: Memcached Driver ---------------- +.. note:: Since Memcache doesn't have a locking mechanism exposed, locks + for this driver are emulated by a separate value that is kept for + up to 5 seconds. You may experience issues if your page loads take + longer than that! + The 'memcached' driver is very similar to the 'redis' one in all of its properties, except perhaps for availability, because PHP's `Memcached <http://php.net/memcached>`_ extension is distributed via PECL and some diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/tutorial/create_news_items.rst b/user_guide_src/source/tutorial/create_news_items.rst index 1f4a96dd3..461584723 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/tutorial/create_news_items.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/tutorial/create_news_items.rst @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Continuing down, you can see a condition that checks whether the form validation ran successfully. If it did not, the form is displayed, if it was submitted **and** passed all the rules, the model is called. After this, a view is loaded to display a success message. Create a view at -application/view/news/success.php and write a success message. +application/views/news/success.php and write a success message. Model ----- diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/tutorial/news_section.rst b/user_guide_src/source/tutorial/news_section.rst index 80938de32..f436b2510 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/tutorial/news_section.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/tutorial/news_section.rst @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ and add the next piece of code. <div class="main"> <?php echo $news_item['text'] ?> </div> - <p><a href="news/<?php echo $news_item['slug'] ?>">View article</a></p> + <p><a href="<?php echo $news_item['slug'] ?>">View article</a></p> <?php endforeach ?> diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/tutorial/static_pages.rst b/user_guide_src/source/tutorial/static_pages.rst index 36bcd2df9..53f286473 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/tutorial/static_pages.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/tutorial/static_pages.rst @@ -11,12 +11,16 @@ static pages. A controller is simply a class that helps delegate work. It is the glue of your web application. For example, when a call is made to: -``http://example.com/news/latest/10`` We might imagine that there is a -controller named "news". The method being called on news would be -"latest". The news method's job could be to grab 10 news items, and -render them on the page. Very often in MVC, you'll see URL patterns that -match: -``http://example.com/[controller-class]/[controller-method]/[arguments]`` + + http://example.com/news/latest/10 + +We might imagine that there is a controller named "news". The method +being called on news would be "latest". The news method's job could be to +grab 10 news items, and render them on the page. Very often in MVC, +you'll see URL patterns that match: + + http://example.com/[controller-class]/[controller-method]/[arguments] + As URL schemes become more complex, this may change. But for now, this is all we will need to know. @@ -25,15 +29,13 @@ code. :: - <?php - class Pages extends CI_Controller { + <?php + class Pages extends CI_Controller { - public function view($page = 'home') - { - - } - - } + public function view($page = 'home') + { + } + } You have created a class named "pages", with a view method that accepts one argument named $page. The pages class is extending the @@ -56,13 +58,13 @@ following code. :: - <html> - <head> - <title>CodeIgniter Tutorial</title> - </head> - <body> + <html> + <head> + <title>CodeIgniter Tutorial</title> + </head> + <body> - <h1>CodeIgniter Tutorial</h1> + <h1>CodeIgniter Tutorial</h1> The header contains the basic HTML code that you'll want to display before loading the main view, together with a heading. It will also @@ -72,16 +74,16 @@ includes the following code: :: - <em>© 2014</em> - </body> - <html> + <em>© 2014</em> + </body> + </html> Adding logic to the controller ------------------------------ -Earlier you set up a controller with a view() method. The method accepts -one parameter, which is the name of the page to be loaded. The static -page templates will be located in the application/views/pages/ +Earlier you set up a controller with a ``view()`` method. The method +accepts one parameter, which is the name of the page to be loaded. The +static page templates will be located in the application/views/pages/ directory. In that directory, create two files named home.php and about.php. Within @@ -93,43 +95,40 @@ page actually exists: :: - <?php - public function view($page = 'home') - { - - if ( ! file_exists(APPPATH.'/views/pages/'.$page.'.php')) - { - // Whoops, we don't have a page for that! - show_404(); - } - - $data['title'] = ucfirst($page); // Capitalize the first letter - - $this->load->view('templates/header', $data); - $this->load->view('pages/'.$page, $data); - $this->load->view('templates/footer', $data); - - } + public function view($page = 'home') + { + if ( ! file_exists(APPPATH.'/views/pages/'.$page.'.php')) + { + // Whoops, we don't have a page for that! + show_404(); + } + + $data['title'] = ucfirst($page); // Capitalize the first letter + + $this->load->view('templates/header', $data); + $this->load->view('pages/'.$page, $data); + $this->load->view('templates/footer', $data); + } Now, when the page does exist, it is loaded, including the header and footer, and displayed to the user. If the page doesn't exist, a "404 Page not found" error is shown. The first line in this method checks whether the page actually exists. -PHP's native file\_exists() function is used to check whether the file -is where it's expected to be. show\_404() is a built-in CodeIgniter +PHP's native ``file_exists()`` function is used to check whether the file +is where it's expected to be. ``show_404()`` is a built-in CodeIgniter function that renders the default error page. -In the header template, the $title variable was used to customize the +In the header template, the ``$title`` variable was used to customize the page title. The value of title is defined in this method, but instead of assigning the value to a variable, it is assigned to the title element in the $data array. The last thing that has to be done is loading the views in the order -they should be displayed. The second parameter in the view() method is -used to pass values to the view. Each value in the $data array is +they should be displayed. The second parameter in the ``view()`` method is +used to pass values to the view. Each value in the ``$data`` array is assigned to a variable with the name of its key. So the value of -$data['title'] in the controller is equivalent to $title in the view. +``$data['title']`` in the controller is equivalent to $title in the view. Routing ------- @@ -149,8 +148,8 @@ all other code that sets any element in the $route array. :: - $route['default_controller'] = 'pages/view'; - $route['(:any)'] = 'pages/view/$1'; + $route['default_controller'] = 'pages/view'; + $route['(:any)'] = 'pages/view/$1'; CodeIgniter reads its routing rules from top to bottom and routes the request to the first matching rule. Each rule is a regular expression @@ -163,8 +162,8 @@ More information about routing can be found in the URI Routing `documentation <../general/routing.html>`_. Here, the second rule in the $routes array matches **any** request using -the wildcard string (:any). and passes the parameter to the view() +the wildcard string (:any). and passes the parameter to the ``view()`` method of the pages class. -Now visit index.php/about. Did it get routed correctly to the view() +Now visit index.php/about. Did it get routed correctly to the ``view()`` method in the pages controller? Awesome! |