Load view from Controller issue

Hi there,

I am new to CodeIgniter framework and needs someone help, please.
I have an issue to redirect user back to Contact Us form after its submission.

My default controller is defined as below.

PHP Code:

<?php

class Pages extends CI_Controller {

    public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function view($page = 'home') {
        if (!file_exists(APPPATH . 'views/pages/' . $page . '.php')) {
            show_404();
        }

        $data['title'] = ucfirst($page);

        $this->load->view('templates/header');
        $this->load->view('pages/' . $page, $data);
        $this->load->view('templates/footer');
    }

} 


Now my view pages are in the sub-directory called pages, for example /views/pages/contact-us.php. So when I access this page like https://www.mysite.com/contact-us then it works fine and loads the contact us form as expected.

Look at my .htaccess file that removes index.php from the URL.

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mysite\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R,L]
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|images|js|css|uploads|favicon.png|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-f
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]

And also look at my routes.php file.

PHP Code:

<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

$route['sendemail'] = 'sendemail/index';

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

$route['404_override'] = '';
$route['translate_uri_dashes'] = FALSE; 


Now after user submits the contact us form it goes to controller called SendEmail.php and then I want user to come back to Contact Us form with message either successful or failed. I am getting an email to my gmail account but when it comes to loading VIEW it does not work.

Look at code of SendEmail.php

PHP Code:

<?php

defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class SendEmail extends CI_Controller {

    public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function index() {
        // Check form submit or not
        //var_dump($this->input->post());

        if ($this->input->post('submit') != NULL) {

            // POST data
            $postData = $this->input->post();

            //SMTP related configuration is defined in /config/email.php
            //it loads automatically by CodIgniter
            
            $this->load->library('email');
            $this->email->set_newline("\r\n");

            $this->email->from($postData['email'], $postData['name']);
            $this->email->to(ADMIN_CURRENT_EMAIL);

            $this->email->subject(CONTACT_US_FORM_SUBJECT);
            $this->email->message('Testing the email class.');

            $data['is_error'] = false;

            if ($this->email->send()) {
                $data['message'] = 'The email has been sent successfully.';
            } else {
                $data['is_error'] = true;
                $data['message'] = 'Sorry, the email was not sent successfully. Try again later or send a direct email to ' . ADMIN_CURRENT_EMAIL;
                //echo $this->email->print_debugger();
            }
            
            $this->load->view('contact-us', $data);           
            
        } else {
            echo "Invalid request.";
            die();
        }
    }

}

?>

I am getting below error. As I said above I manage to get email to my gmail account but loading a view does not work.

An Error Was Encountered
Unable to load the requested file: contact-us.php

Can you please help me?

Thanks - Hitesh

Is the file contact-us.php located in the /application/views/ folder?

Yes Dave...its in the /application/views/pages folder.

Thanks.

Yes Dave...its in the /application/views/pages folder.

Thanks.

If the path to the file is  /application/views/pages/contact-us.php

Then this line

PHP Code:

$this->load->view('contact-us', $data); 


should be

PHP Code:

$this->load->view('pages/contact-us', $data); 


Yes Dave...its in the /application/views/pages folder.

Thanks.

If the path to the file is  /application/views/pages/contact-us.php

Then this line

PHP Code:

$this->load->view('contact-us', $data); 


should be

PHP Code:

$this->load->view('pages/contact-us', $data); 


Thanks Dave.
I will try today and let you know how it goes.

Your controller is pages/view/$1 because if you look you have no default index method.

So you need to access it like this.

PHP Code:

// wont work
$this->load->view('contact-us', $data);

// should be like this.
$this->load->view('pages/view/contact-us', $data); 


If that wont work you can try this method below.

PHP Code:

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------

if ( ! function_exists('redirectBack'))
{
    /**
     * redirectBack ()
     * -------------------------------------------------------------------
     *
     * Redirect back to previous page
     *
     */
    function redirectBack()
    {
        if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))
        {
            header('Location: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
        }
        else
        {
            header('Location: http://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);
        }

        exit;
    }
} 


Place it into one of your CodeIgniter helper files.

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

Joined CodeIgniter Community 2009.  ( Skype: insitfx )

Hi Dave,

In fact I had to put as below in the controller while redirecting back to contact us form.

PHP Code:

/*1*/ $this->load->view('templates/header');
/*2*/ $this->load->view('pages/contact-us', $data);
/*3*/ $this->load->view('templates/footer'); 


If I only add line#2 then contact us form does not include header and footer views in the final rendering of the view. So I had to do it that way. I find it annoying. Is there any better way so I will not have to include header and footer templates while loading view from the controller?

With above code I manage to load contact-us view but then in the address bar it does not show contact-us (http://localhost:8080/42patidarsamaj-staging/contact-us) rather it shows controller name (http://localhost:8080/42patidarsamaj-staging/sendemail). 

Please advise.

Thanks.

Hi there,


Thanks for taking off time to post your reply.
I tried as you said but it did not work.

PHP Code:

$this->load->view('pages/view/contact-us', $data); 


At the moment in /application/helpers folder there is not any file. Do you mean I need to create a new PHP file and place the redirect code there? If yes, then will be a PHP class file or regular PHP template?

Kindly advise.

PHP Code:

// Try changing this
$route['(:any)'] = 'pages/view/$1';

// To this
$route['pages/view/(.+)'] = 'pages/view/$1'; 


PHP Code:

$route['translate_uri_dashes'] = FALSE;
As evident by the boolean value, this is not exactly a route. This option enables you to automatically
replace dashes (‘-‘) with underscores in the controller and method URI segments, thus saving you additional
route entries if you need to do that. This is required, because the dash isn’t a valid class or method name
character and would cause a fatal error if you try to use it. 


I would also change contact-us to contact_us I never use hyphens in file names.

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

Joined CodeIgniter Community 2009.  ( Skype: insitfx )

Hi there,


After I made a change in routes.php as you suggested now my hyperlinks/direct URLs for all the views stopped working.
For example:

Code:

http://localhost:8080/42patidarsamaj-staging/directory
http://localhost:8080/42patidarsamaj-staging/about-us

etc...

Sorry but now I am putting back what was before....I did not think it was this tough to load VIEW from Controller.

Please help if you can.

Thanks.