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eoin
eoin

Reputation: 113

calling controller method in href in a button, in a view

iam back with another question to do with mvc and codeigniter. just getting a bit confused with the concept of MVC. First of all i have a button. i want it to reference another page. how i was going to access the next "view" or page was from this view was with a simple href="" inside a button like below.

href="<?php echo base_url();?>index.php/user/admin"

but this is a call to a method in my controller, which redirects to admin page. from what ive read this is bad practice as you cant call a controller method from a view. fair enough. but how do i actually link to the next page then? cheers

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10698

Answers (2)

Muhammad Raheel
Muhammad Raheel

Reputation: 19882

You should do it like this

<a href="<?php echo site_url('user/admin')?>">

And here is the controller method of user class to which you are going

function admin(){
    $this->load->view('mypage');
}

Make sure you allow it to access. I mean there is no check in constructor to redirect somewhere else.

Upvotes: 1

Nil&#39;z
Nil&#39;z

Reputation: 7475

You always interact with the controller directly from the view. Calling href="<?php echo base_url();?>index.php/user/admin" means you interacting with the admin function of user controller and this is perfectly fine. No worries.

Upvotes: 3

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