Helper functions not working

[eluser]01010011[/eluser]
Hi,
I'm following the tutorial "Create a blog in 20 minutes" and I unsuccessful in creating the links on my HTML page using the helper and anchor functions.

I've put

Code:

$this->load->helper('url');
$this->load->helper('form');

in the constructor under

Code:

parent::Controller();

and

Code:

<p>&lt;?php anchor('blog/comments','Comments'); ?&gt;</p>

within the foreach loop as specified in the tutorial.

Any suggestions?

[eluser]ciGR[/eluser]
You forget to "echo" the anchor

Code:

<p>&lt;?php echo anchor('blog/comments','Comments'); ?&gt;</p>

[eluser]01010011[/eluser]
Thank you for your reply and observation ciGR.

I put in the echo, but Im getting the same problem.

However, when I viewed the source as instructed in the video, this line was missing (it was in in the video):

<form method= "post" action = "http://www.example.com/CodeIgniter/index.php/blog/comment_insert">

[eluser]ciGR[/eluser]
if you try a test controller

Code:

<?php
class test extends Controller {
    
    function __construct()
    {
        parent::Controller();
        $this->load->helper('url');
    }
    
    function index()
    {
        
        echo anchor("test/page","link to a test page");    
    }
}
?>

you get the link??

[eluser]01010011[/eluser]
[quote author="ciGR" date="1269797139"]if you try a test controller
you get the link??[/quote]

Yes I got the links after putting the test code in the controller folder and typed

localhost/codeigniter/index.php/blog

but I don't understand how your code did it.

When I typed

localhost/codeigniter/index.php/blog/test

I get a 404 Page Not Found.

I'm new to PHP and CI so I'm trying to figure out what exactly went wrong. The only differences I noticed were that you had

Code:

function _construct()

and I had

Code:

function Blog()

named after the class, Blog

[eluser]ciGR[/eluser]
when you have the link index.php/Blog/
CI call the Blog controller and the index() method for default.
so is like index.php/Blog/index

To call the index.php/blog/test you must have a method test() in the Blog controller.