News tutorial help needed

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[quote author="CroNiX" date="1349891690"]You posted everything except for what the actual problem is. What specifically isn't working?[/quote]

Thats what the link was for

its error 500 and nothing operates outside of the index.php page

Your routes shouldn't start with a /. It should just be "controller/method/params"

Code:

$route['news/(:any)'] = '/news/view/$1';  //'news/view/$1'

Probably not the problem but thought I'd mention it.

fixed

Also, if your /application dir isn't in its default location (same level as index.php), this line will need to be changed:

Code:

if ( ! file_exists('application/views/pages/'.$page.'.php'))

to something more dynamic like

Code:

if ( ! file_exists(APPPATH . 'views/pages/'.$page.'.php'))

could you elaborate why that works? not that i dotn believe that it solves stuff but I'm really trying to learn this stuff and honestly curious

still returning error 500