CodeIgniter: How do I include a .js file in view?

Question

Where and how do I include .js files in Views in CodeIgniter?

I have tried this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="system/application/libraries/jquery.js"></script>

As I figured that the index.php is the one that is loading the views, so I'm guessing that every time a page is loaded the current dir path is at root because index.php is located at root. Is this true?

The above line doesn't so I am doing something wrong. I have a CodeIgniter project. The path is like this:

localhost/CodeIgniter/system/application

so which path should I use to include my jquery.js file which is located in

localhost/CodeIgniter/system/application/libraries

when I want to load the jquery.js file in a View located here:

localhost/codeIgniter/system/application/views/till_view.php

Answer 1

There is a lesser-known solution that works really well with clean syntax and much more portability than hard-coding URL's or relative files.

<base href="<?=base_url();?>">

<img src="images/logo.gif" alt="Logo" />

Read more about how, what, why on my article "Asset handling in CodeIgniter with the BASE tag".