Codeigniter assets folder best practice

Question

I'm fairly new to codeigniter, But i'm learning well, I'm going to add a css, images, js, ... folder but I'm not sure where to put it

Someone told me to make a 'public' folder

system application public     css     images 

And then in your index.php ( in the public folder ) adjust accordingly

$system_path = '../system'; $application_path = '../application';

But when I do that i get a 404 ( not the ci 404, but a really-not-found one )

Anyone has any idea what I might be doing wrong? Thanks!

Answer 1

I have this setup:

application assets system .htaccess 

and in the "assets" folder i have subfolders like "img" or "js" and so on. I also use "utility helper" to help me point to that folder.

If you want to try it, you have to first create a helper named "utility_helper.php" with this code:

     <?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');       if ( ! function_exists('asset_url()'))      {        function asset_url()        {           return base_url().'assets/';        }      } 

and store it in

     application/helpers/ 

then you have to autoload that helper, you go to:

  application/config/autoload.php 

and auto load the helper (example: )

  $autoload['helper'] = array('form', 'url', 'utility'); 

you have also to route to that folder ('application/config/routes.php')

       $route['assets/(:any)'] = 'assets/$1'; 

and have a .htaccess file with this content:

    RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|assets|robots\.txt)     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L] 

now you can simply include external scripts, css example:

   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo asset_url();?>css/style.css"> 

where css is the folder inside assets and style.css is the css file. Like so:

   application    assets           css               style.css    system