Recommended way to use stylesheet file?

fredtheman

Posted: 27 January 2007 01:46 PM

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Hello,

Found a hoster that allows URL rewriting Next step, using a CSS file.

With CI living under /igniter (/public_html/igniter when connecting through FTP), I tried the following things to use a stylesheet, but they don’t work, ie. the CSS file seems to be ignored:

- uploaded style.css in ./views, and used this in view file:
<meta http-equiv=“content-type” content=“text/html; charset=iso-8859-1”>
<link href=“style.css” type=“text/css”>

- created /public_html/igniter/css/, uploaded style.css there, and used this:
<meta http-equiv=“content-type” content=“text/html; charset=iso-8859-1”>
<link href=”/public_html/igniter/css/style.css” type=“text/css”/>

- did this:
<link type=“text/css” href=”<?php base_url(); ?>/css/style.css” />
but I get this:
ï»¿ Fatal error: Call to undefined function: base_url() in /public_html/igniter/system/application/views/mainview.php on line 9

Is it because of the URL rewriting in .htaccess? What do you recommend to use CSS in CI?

Thank you.

PS : And if you know why I get “ï»¿” as the very first characters when the page is displayed, I’m interested.

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Stii

Posted: 27 January 2007 01:52 PM

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Hi Fred,

Did you load the URL helper? base_url() function is in the Url Helper and must either be explicitly loaded or you need tyo autoload it in your config/autoload.php file.

Hope it helps.

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fredtheman

Posted: 27 January 2007 02:30 PM

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Stii - 27 January 2007 01:52 PM
Did you load the URL helper? base_url() function is in the Url Helper and must either be explicitly loaded or you need tyo autoload it in your config/autoload.php file.

Thanks. No, I thought it was part of CI, so didn’t use it. I’ll check how to add it to the site.

Anyway, more reading of the archives revealed that it was indeed due to .htaccess. To tell Apache not to mess with the URL when it contains a reference to CSS, use this cond:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ index.php [L]

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L] 

I’m still getting “ï»¿<html>” when Igniter renders the view, though, although the view file doesn’t contain those funny characters. Could this be due to charsets?

<html>

<head>
    <!--meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"-->
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/igniter/css/style.css" />
    <title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
</head>

<body> 

Thank you.

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fredtheman

Posted: 27 January 2007 02:36 PM

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Solved: UltraEdit seems to be set to save files in UTF-8, although I thought it was the usual 8859.

And URL helper works by just adding the following to the controller before loading the view:


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

Thanks.

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Stii

Posted: 27 January 2007 02:52 PM

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