Where do I put image files css js etc in Codeigniter

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Where is it acceptable to put css folders and image file folders  I was thinking inside the view folder  However the controller always reroutes the path to the base url so I have to specify the path in the  html file to where it sits  which is redundant

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No  inside the views folder is not good   Look  You must have 3 basic folders on your project       system    This is CI framework there are not much reasons to touch this files  application    this is where your logic goes  the files that makes the application   public    this must be your documentroot  For security reasons its better to keep your framework and the application outside your documentroot  public html  htdocs  public  www    etc   Inside your public folder  you should put your public info  what the browsers can see  its common to find the folders  images  js  css  so your structure will be    - system   - application   ---- models   ---- views   ---- controllers   - public   ---- images   ---- js   ---- css   ---- index php  ----  htaccess

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I am new to Codeigniter  so I don t know if this is the best advice   I keep publicly available files in my public folder  It is logical for them to be there  and I don t want to use Codeigniter for something I don t need to use it for   The directory tree looks likes this     application    public    public css    public img    public js    system    The only files I keep in  public  are Codeigniter s index php  and my  htaccess file   RewriteEngine On RewriteBase    RewriteRule  css  -  L  RewriteRule  img  -  L  RewriteRule  js  -  L   RewriteRule  index php      -  L  RewriteRule         index php   1  L

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add one folder any name e g public and add  htaccess file and write allow from all it means  in this folder your all files and all folder will not give error Access forbidden  use it like this   lt link href   lt  php echo base url      gt application public css style css  rel  stylesheet  type  text css     gt   lt script type  text javascript  src   lt  php echo base url      gt application public js javascript js  gt  lt  script gt

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I have a setup like this    application system assets   js imgs css    I then have a helper function that simply returns the full path to this depending on my setup  something similar to   application helpers utility helper php   function asset url       return base url    assets        I will usually keep common routines similar to this in the same file and autoload it with codeigniter s autoload configuration       Note  autoload URL helper for base url   access    application config autoload php    autoload  helper     array  url   utility      You will then have access to asset url   throughout your code

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No one says that you need to modify the  htacces and add the directory in the rewrite condition  I ve created a directory  public  in the root directory alongside with  system    application    index php    and edited the  htaccess file like this   RewriteCond  1    index  php public robots  txt    Now you have to just call  lt  php echo base url     public yourdirectory yuorfile    gt  You can add subdirectory inside  public  dir as you like

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The link tag   helper is clearly the way to do this  Put your css where it usually belongs  in site root css  and then use the helper   From The CodeIgniter docs     echo link tag  css mystyles css      Output    lt link href  http   example com css mystyles css  rel  stylesheet  type  text css    gt

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you can put the css folder inside the assest folder you name it any name  in the directory of your project as    - ci app - application  - views       - assets    - css      - style css        when you want to load that file in a page  you can use base url  function as this way   lt head gt   lt link rel  stylesheet  href   lt  php echo base url     gt assets css style css  gt   lt  head gt  and you are sure to add base url of your project in the config php file as this    config  base url      http   localhost ci app

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I usually put all my files like that into an  assets  folder in the application root  and then I make sure to use an Asset Helper to point to those files for me  This is what CodeIgniter suggests

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Hi our sturucture is like  Application  system  user guide   create a folder name assets just near all the folders and then inside this assets folder create css and javascript and images folder  put all your css js insiide the folders   now go to header php and call the css just like this    lt link rel  stylesheet  href   lt  php echo base url     gt assets css touchTouch css  gt     lt link rel  stylesheet  href   lt  php echo base url     gt assets css style css  gt     lt link rel  stylesheet  href   lt  php echo base url     gt assets css camera css  gt

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Regardless of where you put the CSS file you can simply use the CodeIgniter  html  helper called link tag    You would apply this helper something like this   echo link tag  folder subfolder stylesheet css      It is up to you to locate the CSS file in the most appropriate place  in your opinion   You would have to either autoload the  html  helper or separately load it in to use it   People keep suggesting the usage of base url   to achieve this but it is actually not really the  CodeIgniter  way to do it  I think this question has a few duplicates   That will work but one of the reasons for using a framework is to use the pre-made functions within it      There are many helpers in codeigniter to do this kind of thing

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I m using the latest version of CodeIgniter 3 1 0  The folder structure of it is    system application user guide assets   images js css      That s where you should put the images  css and js files inside the assets folder

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I just wanted to add that the problem may be even simpler - I ve been scratching my head for hours with this problem - I have read all the solutions  nothing worked  Then I managed to check the actual file name  I had  quot image jpg jpg quot  rather than  quot image jpg quot   If you use   ls public   path to image assets    you can quickly check the file names  Sounds stupid but I never thought to look at something so simple as file name given the all the technical advice here

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This is how I handle the public assets  Here I use Phalcon PHP s Bootstrap method   Folder Structure   - htaccess   -application   -public     - htaccess      -index php       -css     -js     -img     -font     -upload   -system   Files to edit    htaccess      All requests to the project will be rewritten to the public  directory   making it the document root  This step ensures that the internal   project folders remain hidden from public viewing and thus eliminates   security threats of this kind  - Phalconphp Doc    lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt      RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule     public      L      RewriteRule       public  1  L   lt  IfModule gt    htaccess       Rules will check if the requested file exists and  if it does  it   doesn   t have to be rewritten by the web server module  - Phalconphp   Doc    lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt      RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d     RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f     RewriteRule        index php  1  QSA L   lt  IfModule gt   index php     Modify the application path and the system path as    system path       system    application folder       application      Now you use the  public folder as base url    public  YOUR ASSET FOLDER    Hope this helps

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I use the following folder structure   application  system  static     admin         js         css         images     public         js         css         images     uploads         original         thumbs

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