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12-01-2007, 11:31 PM

[eluser]josh48202[/eluser]
i created a separate stylesheet to keep the stuff organized better for the stuff i add in and i edited the autoload.php file n added

Code:
$autoload['stylesheet'] = array('application/views/stylesheet.css');

did i do this right and do i have to add something to the index file to get it to load. sorry im still new to this.

12-02-2007, 02:04 AM

[eluser]BoltClock[/eluser]
You can't autoload stylesheets as far as I know.

I would create a directory under /application/views called /css, then save the stylesheet in there. Then I'd create a separate view file called header.php and add the <link /> pointing to the stylesheet and get all my view files to include('header.php') at the top the old school way.

Don't worry, I'm new to CI too so there may be a better way around this. Hope that helped Smile

12-02-2007, 07:18 AM

[eluser]josh48202[/eluser]
i think what i added to the autoload.php worked but it doesnt always work on somefiles. some files i have to add the link to the stylesheet and the other times i dont. so i dont know

12-02-2007, 11:08 AM

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
You can't autoload a stylesheet. Your best bet is to create a global view file named header and then load that from all of your normal view files.

12-02-2007, 02:17 PM

[eluser]josh48202[/eluser]
alright well b4 i tried autoloading the stylesheet i was using this so il just stick with this instead of doing the header thing ur guys are taling about

Code:
&lt;style type='text/css'&gt;

&lt;?

$this->file(BASEPATH.'application/views/stylesheet.css');

?&gt;

&lt;/style&gt;

12-02-2007, 04:15 PM

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
That's basically what we're saying to, except rather than typing that into every file you can do something like this:

_global/header.php

Code:
&lt;html&gt;

  &lt;head&gt;

    &lt;title&gt;My Site&lt;/title&gt;

    &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" /&gt;

  &lt;/head&gt;

whateverview.php

Code:
&lt;?= $this->load->view('_global/header'); ?&gt;

  &lt;body&gt;<p>Wow!</p>&lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

There are quite a few advantageous to this - mainly, if you ever change stylesheets (or add more), you only have to change one file.

12-02-2007, 04:38 PM

[eluser]josh48202[/eluser]
ooo gotcha ya yea thats easier to remember and type thank you for your help.

12-28-2007, 04:37 AM

[eluser]adamp1[/eluser]
I have just released by Asset Linker library. This does everything you want, so give it a go.

Link is in my sig

12-28-2007, 07:40 AM

[eluser]Nick Husher[/eluser]
Additionally, the "$this->file()" approach prints the contents of the stylesheet into a <style></style> block, which isn't ideal. If you externally link your stylesheets (with a <link/> tag or otherwise) and your server is set up correctly (with Last-Modified or Expires headers), you can significantly reduce your bandwidth needs for a given page because the stylesheet need only be downloaded once and can be used across pages. My only additional suggestion is to set a base href and declare everything relative to that:

Code:
&lt;html&gt;

 &lt;head&gt;

  &lt;base href="&lt;?=site_url() ?&gt;" /&gt;

  &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="assets/css/style.css" /&gt;

 ...

This way your server's base path could be "www.example.com" while your CodeIgniter base path (defined in config.php) can be something different, such as "www.example.com/my_CI_app/test" while still allowing you to use the same header template in all your views.

12-28-2007, 09:36 AM

[eluser]eggshape[/eluser]
One solution I've used is to create a CSS-autoload helper, autoload the helper using CI, and then call the helper function in each view to pull the correct CSS according to the viewfile name.