The simplest Codeigniter Template Library you've ever saw!
Codeigniter Simplicity is a Codeigniter Template Library that is here to make our life easier.
It's been a while that there is not any official Template/Layout library inside Codeigniter. In that case I've created the Codeigniter Simplicity that is based on core functionalities of Codeigniter as it represents to me the "How it should be" project.
The code is really simple to use and the naming of the functions are pretty obvious of what they are doing without any more complexity
Obviously the first thing that you have to do is downloading the library. Make sure that you have Codeigniter at your project before using this library. They are two options to download the library:
Download latest stable version 0.7 or download latest development version from github
Once downloaded, unzip the compressed folder and copy the folder into your codeigniter Project. That's it really! You don't need any configuration to do and your previous project will be as it was before.
To help you understand how your project will be after the copying of the files and folder, it should look something like this:
application ├──cache ├──config ├──controllers │ ├──welcome.php │ ├──index.html │ ├──example.php ├──core │ ├──index.html │ ├──MY_Loader.php │ ├──MY_Output.php ├──errors ├── ... ├──views ├────themes │ ├──simple.php │ ├──blank.php │ ├──default.php │ ├── ... │ ├── ... assets ├──themes ├────default ├──────css │ ├──general.css │ ├──bootstrap.css │ ├── ... ├──────js │ ├──jquery-1.9.1.min.js │ ├──bootstrap.min.js │ ├── ... ├──────images │ ├──glyphicons-halflings.png │ ├──favicon.png │ ├── ... system index.php
This is a good structure for your templates
A good way to start actually is by checking the examples that the project has inside. There is a Controller with name Example and there they are lot of examples of how to use Codeigniter Simplicity
The Controller Example will look something like this:<?php class Example extends CI_Controller { function __construct() { parent::__construct(); $this->load->helper('url'); $this->output->set_template('default'); } public function index() { $this->load->view('ci_simplicity/welcome'); } public function example_1() { $this->load->view('ci_simplicity/example_1'); } public function example_2() { $this->output->set_template('simple'); $this->load->view('ci_simplicity/example_2'); } public function example_3() { $this->load->section('sidebar', 'ci_simplicity/sidebar'); $this->load->view('ci_simplicity/example_3'); } public function example_4() { $this->output->unset_template(); $this->load->view('ci_simplicity/example_4'); } }
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
<meta name="resource-type" content="document" />
<meta name="robots" content="all, index, follow"/>
<meta name="googlebot" content="all, index, follow" />
<?php
/** -- Copy from here -- */
if(!empty($meta))
foreach($meta as $name=>$content){
echo "\n\t\t";
?><meta name="<?php echo $name; ?>" content="<?php echo $content; ?>" /><?php
}
echo "\n";
if(!empty($canonical))
{
echo "\n\t\t";
?><link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo $canonical?>" /><?php
}
echo "\n\t";
foreach($css as $file){
echo "\n\t\t";
?><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $file; ?>" type="text/css" /><?php
} echo "\n\t";
foreach($js as $file){
echo "\n\t\t";
?><script src="<?php echo $file; ?>"></script><?php
} echo "\n\t";
/** -- to here -- */
?>
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<?php echo $output; ?>
</body>
</html>
| Code | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| $this->output->set_template($template) | Set a template | $this->output->set_template('default'); |
| $this->output->unset_template() | Unset any template that was set | $this->output->unset_template(); |
| $this->load->section($section, $ci_view [, $data ]); | Load a section to the template | $this->load->section('sidebar', 'ci_simplicity/sidebar'); |
| $this->load->get_section($section); | Get the section at the template | $this->load->get_section('sidebar'); |
| $this->load->js($js_files); | Load js files | $this->load->js('assets/js/jquery.min.js'); |
| $this->load->css($css_files); | Load css files | $this->load->css('assets/css/general.css'); |
| $this->output->set_canonical($canonical); | Add canolical metatag | $this->output->set_canonical(site_url('about')); |
| $this->output->set_meta($name,$content); | Add metatag | $this->output->set_meta('description','Lorem Ipsum'); |
| $this->output->set_common_meta($title, $description, $keywords) | Set common meta Data | $this->output->set_common_meta('About me', 'This is a page about me', 'about, John, CV'); |
v0.7 #5 - Fix error Array to string conversion by implode meta keywords if its value is array Compatibility with Codeigniter 3.x v.0.6 Load CSS files Load JS files Set Template Set Sections Set Meta Data Set Title Set Common Meta Data Set Canonical Meta Data Load CSS and JS files inside the view Unset Template
If you've successfully installed the template library, the very next step would be to create a CRUD for your Codeigniter application. Fortunately this is very easy as well and you can achieve a full CRUD with just few lines of code.
Grocery CRUD is a completely free library for Codeigniter and It is seriously very easy to work with. For example in order to have a full CRUD, you will just need the below lines of code:
$crud = new grocery_CRUD(); $crud->set_table('customers'); $crud->set_subject('Customer'); $output = $crud->render();
For more about Grocery CRUD, you can visit the page: www.grocerycrud.com