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Justin
Justin

Reputation: 27321

How to manage URLs in CodeIgniter so they can be updated in a single place

I believe Smarty templates has functionality built in that allows you to manage your site URLs from a config file so if something gets moved, you only have to update the URL in one place. Does this sort of functionality exist in CodeIgniter? If not, any pointers or examples on how/where to add it?

For example:

Instead of hard-coding the link it would be: <a href="<?=$links->settings ?>">Settings</a>

But where would you want to set $links so that it was available everywhere? Or is it really best to just hard code them?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 650

Answers (3)

Robert
Robert

Reputation: 1907

Take a look at the config class. It allows you to make custom config files. It's not entirely made for URL's but you sure can use them.

Upvotes: 1

Sergey Telshevsky
Sergey Telshevsky

Reputation: 12207

Yes, it's called Routes, configuration located at config/routes.php. Documentation

If you ask about the rendered html of the links, then your best bet would be using site_url() in conjunction with constants, for example site_url(URL_SETTINGS);, there is no built in functionality for that, but I can say I don't think that is necessary as it would be used too rarely, but it would influence performance every single load.

Upvotes: 1

Sam Dufel
Sam Dufel

Reputation: 17598

The base url should be basically right at the start of /app/config/config.php, where app is the name of your codeigniter application folder. You access it through calls to the base_url() function.

Upvotes: 1

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