codeigniter 4 how to make menu bar links

Question

I am a beginner at CodeIgniter. I want to know how to link one page to another. I tried to like this. I got the error 404 - File Not Found Sorry! I cannot seem to find the page you were looking for.

What I tried so far I attached below. view page:-

<li><a href="<?php echo site_url('aboutus') ?>">Aboutus</a></li>
<li><a href="<?php echo site_url('contactus') ?>">Contactus</a></li>

Controller Page

public function index()
    {
        return view('index');
    }

    public function aboutus()
    {
        return view('about');
    }

    public function contactus()
    {
        return view('contact');
    }

when the page is loaded, called in the index page index, I made the links about I had a problem

What is wrong here.

http://localhost:8080/index.php/home/aboutus linkes home like this — hari dran, Nov 02 '20 at 08:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 02 '20 at 09:24

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Your code is missing a very important thing, the name of your controller.

Lets say your have a controller called site and all those functions are in it. In that case your code should look like this:

class site extends CI_Controller{

    public function index()
    {
        return view('index');
    }

    public function aboutus()
    {
        return view('about');
    }

    public function contactus()
    {
        return view('contact');
    }

}

Then all your links should look like this:

<li><a href="<?php echo site_url('site/aboutus') ?>">Aboutus</a></li>
<li><a href="<?php echo site_url('site/contactus') ?>">Contactus</a></li>

In case you want to remove controller name from your urls your need to look into the routing features codeigniter offers.

answered Nov 02 '20 at 09:24

marcogmonteiro

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ya.sir. my controller name is home.
Aboutus

hari dran

Nov 02 '20 at 09:27

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$routes->get('/', 'Home::index'); $routes->add('aboutus', 'App\Controllers\Home::aboutus'); $routes->add('contactus', 'App\Controllers\Home::contactus'); what is wrong – hari dran Nov 02 '20 at 09:46

@haridran That really depends, I don't know if OP is using ci3 or 4. Since there's no info about it. I left that out because of that. – marcogmonteiro Nov 02 '20 at 11:47

KUMAR · Answer 2 · 2020-11-02T09:51:09.010

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<a href="<?php echo base_url('controller/function')?>"></a>
or
<a href="<?php echo site_url('controller/function')?>"></a>

Then Change Your Links as:-

<li><a href="<?php echo site_url('controller/aboutus') ?>">Aboutus</a></li>
<li><a href="<?php echo site_url('controller/contactus') ?>">Contactus</a></li>

edited Nov 02 '20 at 09:51

answered Nov 02 '20 at 09:23

KUMAR

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this->load->helper('url'); i added my got the error. 'url' inside here which url have to put – hari dran Nov 02 '20 at 09:29
@hari dran in `marcogmonteiro` answer you solved but you have to remove only index.php from that. – KUMAR Nov 02 '20 at 09:36
$this->load->helper() is not valid in CodeIgniter 4. Use helper() instead. Also, URL helper is automatically loaded by the system so you don't have to load it yourself. – Wakeel Nov 02 '20 at 09:44
$routes->get('/', 'Home::index'); $routes->add('aboutus', 'App\Controllers\Home::aboutus'); $routes->add('contactus', 'App\Controllers\Home::contactus'); what is wrong – hari dran Nov 02 '20 at 09:45

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 02 '20 at 09:39

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You need to register the routes. Open Routes.php file under application configuration and register routes to access your controller methods.

Example

$routes->add('aboutus', 'App\Controllers\TheClassName::aboutus');

Change TheClassName to the name of class where aboutus method is

answered Nov 02 '20 at 09:39

Wakeel

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i changed but still output url look like this localhost:8080/index.php/home/aboutus . i need to remove index.php – hari dran Nov 02 '20 at 09:44
$routes->get('/', 'Home::index'); $routes->add('aboutus', 'App\Controllers\Home::aboutus'); $routes->add('contactus', 'App\Controllers\Home::contactus'); what is wrong – hari dran Nov 02 '20 at 09:46
Open App.php under Config folder and set indexPage = ''; – Wakeel Nov 02 '20 at 09:49
With the above route, you need to access the page like this localhost:8080/aboutus – Wakeel Nov 02 '20 at 09:51

codeigniter 4 how to make menu bar links

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