CT310

This simple template example should help you start your FuelPHP web app!

1. With Fuel installed, find your 'fuel/app/classes/controller' directory, inside you'll find a file: welcome.php
• Make a copy of this file and call it home.php
• Delete all the comments on top (keep opening php tag) and methods except 'action_index'
• Clear all the contents of 'action_index' and add the following:
• die('home index');
• Finally, change the name of the class to 'Controller_Home'
• Navigate to 'http://www.cs.colostate.edu:4444/~EID/ct310/index/home'. You should see the text 'home index'.
• Inside home.php create another method called 'action_other' and add a 'die' statement with the text 'home other'
• Navigate to you site but this time use '/index/home/other'
2. Cool, right? Now let's use a View instead of die statements
• Create a directory called 'home' in 'fuel/app/views/' and then a file inside that directory called index.php
• Add anything to the page to identitfy it (the strings from before are probably best)
• Back in your controller home.php, clear the die statement and add this:
• return Response::forge(View::forge('home/index'));
• Check your site and see if you can see your message
3. Awesome! But what about the template?
• Each page will need a header or footer with similar links. Go back to your controller home.php and extend it to 'Controller_Template'
• Clear the 'action_index' and add this:
• $data = array();
• $this->template->title = 'Home Page';
• $this->template->content = View::forge('home/index', $data);
• Now go back to your views directory and create a file called template.php(outside of the home folder). Add the following:
• <h1>MAIN TEMPLATE</h1>
• <?php echo $content; ?>
• Navigate to your site and check if the template loads
4. Do the same for the 'action_other' page to load different content into the template!