[eluser]spherop[/eluser]
I am new to CI and to some degree the MVC approach.

I want to try to understand something before i get too tangled in one approach or another.

I am using CI and jQuery for a new site in which most all of the functionality will be within a single page. Different data and UI behavior will occupy different parts of the screen, be loaded dynamically, and be able to be shown and hidden and so forth.

What I am unsure of is whether to use a single controller - to govern this single page. Or to use a different controller for each part of the page that deals with different data/behavior.

Say for example, I have a comments pane on the left, a video blog in the middle pane, and a friends view in the right pane. Would I most likely end up with a distinct controller for each of these 3? Or 1 controller that will handle this whole page?

I am getting my bearings here - so forgive me if this is obvious or I am missing some key concepts in the line of questioning.

[eluser]stoefln[/eluser]
Is it possible to write my own container class for the data?
i mean somehow this way:

[eluser]kenjis[/eluser]
If you access to
http://localhost/index.php

you can see controllers/welcome.php.

And if you access to
http://localhost/index.php/hoge (hoge is a empty directory)

also you see controllers/welcome.php.

Is this the specification of default controller?


I expect:

When I access to
http://localhost/index.php/hoge (hoge is a directory)

I see controllers/hoge/welcome.php (if exsits) or 404 Page Not Found.

[eluser]=G-Man=[/eluser]
Hello, I just started playing with CodeIgniter and am converting an older Full PHP site over to it. But I'm having a huge issue with MSSQL, as soon as i call $this->load->database() the page just stops loading and I get a plank page, No errors from codeigniter, or in the PHP error log. I saw a few posts about this and they all seemed to be upgrading to 1.6.2 so I tried a few earlier versions (1.4.1, 1.5.3, 1.6.0) and thay all do the same thing as soon as I try to load the database functions.

here is my database.php

[eluser]psdtocode[/eluser]
Hello,

I'm new to both CI and JS, however, I can't explain what is going on, and help from others isn't working. Basically, I am making a simple todo list, and I want to use JS/AJAX to get familiar with JS more. However, I'm having trouble just including JS files.

First, I was doing a relative path, such as src="prototype-1.0.6.2.js" (I've also tried jQuery), which didn't work. I then tried a couple different absolute paths, which didn't work as well. Finally, I searched on here and found a script_url helper (similar to a link_url()) helper, which doesn't work for me. Which ways are you able to include JS files (hopefully without a helper), because I can't seem to get it working.

I know it's not including because I can't use simple $() functions, and normal JS functions work (such as alert(). In Safaris error viewer, it shows up an error when I try to use relative paths, and nothing shows up when I try to go to absolute paths. Any and all help is appreciated.

Just a note, I'm including it from a view file.

Thanks,
Andrew

[eluser]nuttynibbles[/eluser]
hey guys, is there a way to extend controller from another controller. my controllers basically initiate almost the same variable in the constructor and I was thinking if I could do a parent controller which extends from "Controller" libraries and basically the rest of the controllers will extend from my created parent controller.

[eluser]Aquillyne[/eluser]
There are plenty of occasions when I don't actually need to specify my class and function, but I am forced to. Is there a way to get straight into the "id" part, i.e. the part that is passed as a parameter?

For instance, I want a welcome controller that does nothing more than output something from the URI. I want to go to mysite.com/<foo> and see <foo> on the page - that's it.

Without CI this is ridiculously easy. The index.php file just echoes what's in the $_GET. A .htaccess file, as with CI, reduces mysite.com/index.php?=foo back to mysite.com/foo. Easy. But how to do this with CI?

A similar case. A function in my welcome controller accepts a parameter. Why must I go to mysite.com/welcome/function/param rather than just mysite.com/function/param, when the "welcome" has been implicit all along? This is basically the same question as before: why do I have to specify mysite.com/welcome/index/param rather than just mysite.com/param when the "welcome" and "index" were previously implicit?

Note that I only want this to happen on particular pages, which is again very easy without CI. My "foods" page may have no further functions, and hence just immediately accept a parameter. I can use mysite.com/foods.php?=param, or mysite.com/foods/param to do this. But in CI, the foods/param is assumed to refer to a function "param" in the "foods" class. How do I specify, only on the "foods" page, that the second URI segment is to be passed as a parameter?

Is there a way to work around this? Thanks for any help.

[eluser]Tortoise[/eluser]
Hello to everyone!

I have the code:
news.php:

[eluser]MercuryLime[/eluser]
Do you have an idea how to write:

[eluser]Aquillyne[/eluser]
Hi, I'm new to CI. I'm very impressed so far but have a question - could anyone help out?

I want error messages from my site to appear as messages in one of my normal views, rather than as hard-coded messages from the /errors folder. Is there a way to load a view within/instead of an error message?

Thanks.