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Best practice for handling assets (images/css etc) - krishg - 10-06-2016
Dear CI community!
Our assets folder is at the same level as the application and system folder.
So, we have created a rule in .htaccess to handle URIs starting with /assets
Is there a best practice to handling assets within the CI framework?
If we want to continue to keep assets outside CI, but don't want to do .htaccess based routing, is there a way to set up routes in CI for this scenario.
Thanks in advance
Krish
RE: Best practice for handling assets (images/css etc) - InsiteFX - 10-06-2016
You can create your helper to point to your assets folder, my is always in the route of my server but this is how you can do it using a asset() method
./application/helpers/asset_helper.php
PHP Code:
<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
/**
* asset ()
* ------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* Assumes that all resources are in a asset directory in the root
* along with index.php.
*
* USAGE:
*
* asset('path/filename.ext')
*/
if ( ! function_exists('asset'))
{
/**
* method ()
* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* @param $uri
* @return mixed
*/
function asset($uri)
{
$_ci =& get_instance();
return $_ci->config->base_url('assets/'.$uri);
}
}
You will have to play around with this but you should be able to make it work.
RE: Best practice for handling assets (images/css etc) - Narf - 10-07-2016
Just put them inside your webroot, or at symlink there ... anything else is extra work for nothing.