Can I place the model and view folders of the MVC structure of CodeIgniter to different locations irrespective to the regular path?
Move:
application/views
application/models
to some other location, let's say:
abc/views
pqr/models
outside the project folder? If possible, how can I achieve it?
There's no feature to customize the models and views path in CodeIgniter current stable versions (while in CI 3.x you can change the view path as well as application and system).
But you can load your files outside of the typical views and models folders.
The path to the file is relative. So you can use ../ to go one UP level in path.
For example, If the abc folder is placed near application, you should use ../../abc to reach to that folder.
Take a look at the example below:
Model:
class Model_name extends CI_Model {
public function baz($value='')
{
return $value;
}
}
Controller:
class Foo extends CI_Controller {
public function bar()
{
$this->load->model('../../pqr/models/model_name');
$data['var'] = $this->model_name->baz('Yes It Works!');
$this->load->view('../../abc/views/view_name', $data);
}
}
View:
<?php echo $var; ?>
Here is the sample folder structure:
application
system
pqr
/models
/model_name.php
abc
/views
/view_name.php
As a Side-note: Make sure direct accessing to the pqr or abc directories is restricted. add a .htaccess file inside them with the content of Deny from all.
192.168.1.2/test/ and ist respective view is being made on say 192.168.1.3/xyz what should i do for such a case. is it possible now
$this->load->view('http:/ /192.168.1.3/t2/welcome_message');CI_Loader::view(); works. CI tries to include view files from APPPATH.'views/' and lots of checks are done like file_exists(); before including the view file. By the way, you can include() your files manually, but before that, extract() your passing $data.To customize models and views outside the 'application' folder, follow these easy steps,
My_Loader.php file in 'application/core' directoryCopy the following code into the custom My_Loader.php
class MY_Loader extends CI_Loader {
function mymodel($model, $folder = '',$vars = array(), $return = FALSE) {
array_push($this->_ci_model_paths, "");
parent::model($model);
}
function myview($folder, $view, $vars = array(), $return = FALSE) {
$this->_ci_view_paths = array_merge($this->_ci_view_paths, array(APPPATH . '../' . $folder . '/' => TRUE));
return $this->_ci_load(array(
'_ci_view' => $view,
'_ci_vars' => $this->_ci_object_to_array($vars),
'_ci_return' => $return
));
}
$this->load->mymodel('folder/model');
and for the view,
$this->load->myview('views','view_dir/view-php-file', $data);
There's no feature to customise the models and views path in CodeIgniter current stable versions (while in CI 3.x you can change the view path as well as application and system) by default.
But you can do this by changing it in file {CI DIR}/system/core/Loader.php and in the main index.php file.
Take a look at the example below:
Modify the file Loader.php in CI 3.x
The line 80 reads
protected $_ci_model_paths = array(APPPATH);
Change it to
protected $_ci_model_paths = array(MODELPATH);
And in the main index.php file, add
$model_folder = 'pqr';
and
define('MODELPATH', $model_folder);
to customise the views folder path, already given in CI 3.x
I am not sure that you can move views and models to different locations but you can change the location of application folder to the location of your choice.
You can move your application directory to different location and then open your index.php file and set the $system_folder and $application_folder variables with the new path values, preferably with a full path, e.g. '/www/MyUser/system'.
Reference: http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/installation/index.html
Hope this is helpful.
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