can't get link to work

Be sure to name all controllers, libraries and models with a first capital letter.
So your Products controller must be named "Products.php", not "products.php".

I changed the products.php to Products.php file in the CONTROLLERS folder. The MODEL folder has a file Product_model.php. But still will not load the details page from the link. Changed the link from products/details/ to Products/details/. Still not working

Maybe you should try other tutorials. Those that are made for beginners...

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Be sure to name all controllers, libraries and models with a first capital letter.
So your Products controller must be named "Products.php", not "products.php".

I changed the products.php to Products.php file in the CONTROLLERS folder. The MODEL folder has a file Product_model.php. But still will not load the details page from the link. Changed the link from products/details/ to Products/details/. Still not working

Maybe you should try other tutorials. Those that are made for beginners...

I've followed this project through about 5 or more videos. I'm not giving up now

It may be confusing, but don't use capital letters in your hyperlinks or controller/function calls. Although the file names must be first-caps, CI will recognize which controller/function to call.
Is the details page not giving any error message anymore?

Please try this:

PHP Code:

public function details($id)
{
   //Get Product Details
   $data['product'] = $this->product_model->get_product_details($id);

   echo '<pre>';
   print_r($data);
   echo '</pre>';

   //Load View
  $data['main_content'] = 'details';
  //$this->load->view('layouts/main', $data);

} 


This should output the contents of your $data array, including the object or array that was returnd by your model.

It may be confusing, but don't use capital letters in your hyperlinks or controller/function calls. Although the file names must be first-caps, CI will recognize which controller/function to call.
Is the details page not giving any error message anymore?

Please try this:

PHP Code:

public function details($id)
{
   //Get Product Details
   $data['product'] = $this->product_model->get_product_details($id);

   echo '<pre>';
   print_r($data);
   echo '</pre>';

   //Load View
  $data['main_content'] = 'details';
  //$this->load->view('layouts/main', $data);

} 


This should output the contents of your $data array, including the object or array that was returnd by your model.

Just changed the link in products.php file in the VIEW folder to products/details/ then put your above code in the Products.php file in the CONTROLLERS folder. There is no error but it doesn't take me to the details page. It stay on the same page. It is supposed to load the details of a single game with a description and a photo. I have a header.php and a footer.php that's and then the details.php is supposed to lload in place of all the games. So it goes localhost/gamingplace then when you clikc on the link it supposed to load the details of the game you clicked on so it would be localhost/gamingplace/products(in the controller folder Products.php)/details(load the details function in the controllers folder Products.php)/1(id number of game pulled from database) Oh and by the way what does CI stand for. Also thanks for the help

Try this and see if it works, if not you have other problems in your code.

This is just a test link to see if it works:

PHP Code:

<?php echo site_url("products/details/1"); ?>

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

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Try this and see if it works, if not you have other problems in your code.

This is just a test link to see if it works:

PHP Code:

<?php echo site_url("products/details/1"); ?>

Tried that. And it still just stays on the same page with all the products instead of going to the details page of a single product. So I need to just try it with a normal page that doesn't pull in the header and footer and main content and just try static pages

Please try this:

PHP Code:

public function details($id)
{
   //Get Product Details
   $data['product'] = $this->product_model->get_product_details($id);

   echo '<pre>';
   print_r($data);
   echo '</pre>';

   //Load View
  $data['main_content'] = 'details';
  //$this->load->view('layouts/main', $data);

} 


This should output the contents of your $data array, including the object or array that was returnd by your model.

@richie41: What output you get when run above function?

Please try this:

PHP Code:

public function details($id)
{
   //Get Product Details
   $data['product'] = $this->product_model->get_product_details($id);

   echo '<pre>';
   print_r($data);
   echo '</pre>';

   //Load View
  $data['main_content'] = 'details';
  //$this->load->view('layouts/main', $data);

} 


This should output the contents of your $data array, including the object or array that was returnd by your model.

@richie41: What output you get when run above function?

PHP Code:

class Products extends CI_Controller{
    public function details($id){
        //Get Product Details
        $data['product'] = $this->Product_model->get_product_details($id);
        //Load View
        $data['main_content'] = 'details';
        $this->load->view('layouts/main', $data);
    }
} 


Sure I've tried that. I just commented out the get all products in the Products.php in the CONTROLLERS folder. So it just left the get product.

PHP Code:

$route['default_controller'] = 'products/details'; 


Changed the routes.php to 'products/details'.

Took out all the php from details.php file in the VIEWS folder. And the details page loads.

So the routes.php needs to be configured to show the get all products when the url is localhost/thegamingplace then when I click on one of the products the url should be localhost/thegamingpace/products/details/(whatever the id is) and should display the single product details.php page

Your product id needs to be passed to the controller from the view link.

It sounds like you are not passing the id to the controller,
you can check the in the details method by doing a echo $id; exit;

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

Joined CodeIgniter Community 2009.  ( Skype: insitfx )

Your product id needs to be passed to the controller from the view link.

It sounds like you are not passing the id to the controller,
you can check the in the details method by doing a echo $id; exit;

like this?

PHP Code:

public function details($id){
        echo $id; exit;
        //Get Product Details
        $data['product'] = $this->Product_model->get_product_details($id);
        //Load View
        $data['main_content'] = 'details';
        $this->load->view('layouts/main', $data);
    } 


if I put the just put <a href="<?php echo $product->id; ?>"> as the link then it shows the correct id in the URL