HOW TO SETUP HTML TEMPLATE IN CODEIGNITER?

STEP 1: Create a new folder:

• Create a new folder for your project and paste the Codeigniter files in this project folder

STEP 2: Make source folder:

• Create a new folder as source folder in the Codeigniter folder.

• Copy and paste original template in this source folder.

STEP 3: Setup of config file:

• Go to application/config folder and open config.php file.
• Then go to line no.26 which shows $config['base_url'].
• Set the path of your folder in this variable as shown in the image and save the file.

STEP 4: Setup of routes file:

• Go to application/config folder and open routes.php file.
• Then go to line no.52 which shows $route['default_controller'].
• By default the controller is already set with the Welcome controller.

• Change the controller name with the one that you want to create.

STEP 5: Setup of database file:

• Go to application/config folder and open database.php file.
• You can see the Codeigniter database file as below:

• You can change username, password and database details that you created for the project in this file as shown below:

STEP 6: Make an assets folder:

• Make a new folder in Codeigniter folder and named it as an assets folder.

• Go to source folder that you created earlier and copy the css, js, images, fonts files.

• Then paste the files in the assets folder as shown in the image below:

STEP 7: Make a common folder:

• Make a new folder in application/views/ folder. Name this folder as common

• In this common folder, create files that are common in all the webpages of your website like head, header, footer, script.

• In head.php file, add the the head tag code like title, description, style sheets to be called, etc.

• In header.php file, add the header tag code like menu, categories, search, social, etc.
• In footer.php file, add the footer tags code like footer menu, address details, etc.
• In script.php file, call the script files as shown in the image below:

STEP 8: Make a controller file:

• Go to application/controllers folder.
• Make a new controller file in this folder as shown in the image below:

STEP 9: Make a view file:

• Go to application/views folder.
• Make a new view file that you want to call from the controller that you created.