Ability to move the view folder out of the Application directory
* index.php -- added the $view_folder var and VIEWPATH constant *
Loader.php -- changed the private _ci_view_paths var so that it's not
hardcoded to the view dir, but looks for the VIEWPATH constant instead
diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 899f4ce..c50cfed 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -73,6 +73,23 @@
*
*/
$application_folder = 'application';
+
+/*
+ *---------------------------------------------------------------
+ * VIEW FOLDER NAME
+ *---------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * If you want to move the view folder out of the application
+ * folder set the path to the folder here. The folder can be renamed
+ * and relocated anywhere on your server. If blank, it will default
+ * to the standard location inside your application folder. If you
+ * do move this, use the full server path to this folder
+ *
+ * NO TRAILING SLASH!
+ *
+ */
+ $view_folder = '';
+
/*
* --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -190,6 +207,22 @@
define('APPPATH', BASEPATH.$application_folder.'/');
}
+
+ // The path to the "views" folder
+ if (is_dir($view_folder))
+ {
+ define ('VIEWPATH', $view_folder .'/');
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ if ( ! is_dir(APPPATH.'views/'))
+ {
+ exit("Your view folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: ".SELF);
+ }
+
+ define ('VIEWPATH', APPPATH.'views/' );
+ }
+
/*
* --------------------------------------------------------------------