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| 64 | <h1>URL Helper</h1>
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| 66 | <p>The URL Helper file contains functions that assist in working with URLs.</p>
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| 69 | <h2>Loading this Helper</h2>
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| 71 | <p>This helper is loaded using the following code:</p>
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| 72 | <code>$this->load->helper('url');</code>
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| 74 | <p>The following functions are available:</p>
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| 76 | <h2>site_url()</h2>
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| 78 | <p>Returns your site URL, as specified in your config file. The index.php file (or whatever you have set as your
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| 79 | site <dfn>index_page</dfn> in your config file) will be added to the URL, as will any URI segments you pass to the function.</p>
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| admin | e334c47 | 2006-10-21 19:44:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | <p>You are encouraged to use this function any time you need to generate a local URL so that your pages become more portable
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| admin | b0dd10f | 2006-08-25 17:25:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | in the event your URL changes.</p>
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| 84 | <p>Segments can be optionally passed to the function as a string or an array. Here is a string example:</p>
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| 86 | <code>echo site_url("news/local/123");</code>
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| 88 | <p>The above example would return something like: http://www.your-site.com/index.php/news/local/123</p>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | <p>Here is an example of segments passed as an array:</p>
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| 92 | <code>
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| 93 | $segments = array('news', 'local', '123');<br />
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| 94 | <br />
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| 95 | echo site_url($segments);</code>
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| 98 | <h2>base_url()</h2>
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| 99 | <p>Returns your site base URL, as specified in your config file. Example:</p>
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| 100 | <code>echo base_url();</code>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <h2>index_page()</h2>
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| 104 | <p>Returns your site "index" page, as specified in your config file. Example:</p>
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| 105 | <code>echo index_page();</code>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <h2>anchor()</h2>
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| 111 | <p>Creates a standard HTML anchor link based on your local site URL:</p>
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| 113 | <code><a href="http://www.your-site.com">Click Here</a></code>
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| 115 | <p>The tag has three optional parameters:</p>
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| 117 | <code>anchor(<var>uri segments</var>, <var>text</var>, <var>attributes</var>)</code>
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| 118 |
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| 119 | <p>The first parameter can contain any segments you wish appended to the URL. As with the <dfn>site_url()</dfn> function above,
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| admin | b071bb5 | 2006-08-26 19:28:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 120 | segments can be a string or an array.</p>
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| 122 | <p><strong>Note:</strong> If you are building links that are internal to your application do not include the base URL (http://...). This
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| 123 | will be added automatically from the information specified in your config file. Include only the URI segments you wish appended to the URL.</p>
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| admin | b0dd10f | 2006-08-25 17:25:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 124 |
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| 125 | <p>The second segment is the text you would like the link to say. If you leave it blank, the URL will be used.</p>
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| 127 | <p>The third parameter can contain a list of attributes you would like added to the link. The attributes can be a simple string or an associative array.</p>
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| 129 | <p>Here are some examples:</p>
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| 131 | <code>echo anchor(<var>news/local/123</var>, <var>My News</var>);</code>
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| 133 | <p>Would produce: <a href="http://www.your-site.com/index.php/news/local/123" title="My News">My News</a></p>
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| 135 | <code>echo anchor(<var>news/local/123</var>, <var>My News</var>, <var>array('title' => 'The best news!')</var>);</code>
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| 137 | <p>Would produce: <a href="http://www.your-site.com/index.php/news/local/123" title="The best news!">My News</a></p>
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| 140 | <h2>anchor_popup()</h2>
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| 141 |
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| admin | e334c47 | 2006-10-21 19:44:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 142 | <p>Nearly identical to the <dfn>anchor()</dfn> function except that it opens the URL in a new window.
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| admin | e334c47 | 2006-10-21 19:44:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | You can specify JavaScript window attributes in the third parameter to control how the window is opened. If
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| admin | b0dd10f | 2006-08-25 17:25:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 145 | the third parameter is not set it will simply open a new window with your own browser settings. Here is an example
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| 146 | with attributes:</p>
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| 151 | 'width' => '800',<br />
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| 152 | 'height' => '600',<br />
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| 153 | 'scrollbars' => 'yes',<br />
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| 154 | 'status' => 'yes',<br />
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| 155 | 'resizable' => 'yes',<br />
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| 156 | 'screenx' => '0',<br />
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| 157 | 'screeny' => '0'<br />
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| 158 | );<br />
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| 159 | <br />
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| 160 | echo anchor_popup(news/local/123, 'Click Me!', $atts);</code>
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| 161 |
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| 162 | <p>Note: The above attributes are the function defaults so you only need to set the ones that are different from what you need.
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| 163 | If you want the function to use all of its defaults simply pass an empty array in the third parameter:</p>
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| 165 | <code>echo anchor_popup(news/local/123, 'Click Me!', array());</code>
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| 168 | <h2>mailto()</h2>
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| 170 | <p>Creates a standard HTML email link. Usage example:</p>
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| 172 | <code>echo mailto('me@my-site.com', 'Click Here to Contact Me');</code>
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| 174 | <p>As with the <dfn>anchor()</dfn> tab above, you can set attributes using the third parameter.</p>
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| 177 | <h2>safe_mailto()</h2>
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| 179 | <p>Identical to the above function except it writes an obfuscated version of the mailto tag using ordinal numbers
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| 180 | written with JavaScript to help prevent the email address from being harvested by spam bots.</p>
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| 183 | <h2>auto_link()</h2>
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| 185 | <p>Automatically turns URLs and email addresses contained in a string into links. Example:</p>
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| 187 | <code>$string = auto_link($string);</code>
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| 189 | <p>The second parameter determines whether URLs and emails are converted or just one or the other. Default behavior is both
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| 190 | if the parameter is not specified</p>
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| 192 | <p>Converts only URLs:</p>
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| 193 | <code>$string = auto_link($string, 'url');</code>
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| 195 | <p>Converts only Email addresses:</p>
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| 196 | <code>$string = auto_link($string, 'email');</code>
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| 198 | </p>The third parameter determines whether links are shown in a new window. The value can be TRUE or FALSE (boolean):</p>
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| 199 | <code>$string = auto_link($string, 'both', TRUE);</code>
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| 202 | <h2>url_title()</h2>
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| 203 | <p>Takes a string as input and creates a human-friendly URL string. This is useful if, for example, you have a blog
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| 204 | in which you'd like to use the title of your entries in the URL. Example:</p>
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| 206 | <code>$title = "What's wrong with CSS?";<br />
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| 207 | <br />
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| 208 | $url_title = url_title($title);<br />
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| 210 | // Produces: whats-wrong-with-css
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| 211 | </code>
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| 214 | <p>The second parameter determines the word delimiter. By default dashes are used. Options are: <dfn>dash</dfn>, or <dfn>underscore</dfn>:</p>
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| 216 | <code>$title = "What's wrong with CSS?";<br />
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| 217 | <br />
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| 218 | $url_title = url_title($title, 'underscore');<br />
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| 220 | // Produces: whats_wrong_with_css
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| 221 | </code>
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| 224 | <h3>prep_url()</h3>
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| 225 | <p>This function will add <kbd>http://</kbd> in the event it is missing from a URL. Pass the URL string to the function like this:</p>
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| 226 | <code>
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| 227 | $url = "www.some-site.com";<br /><br />
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| 228 | $url = prep_url($url);</code>
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| 233 | <h2>redirect()</h2>
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| 235 | <p>Does a "header redirect" to the local URI specified. Just like other functions in this helper, this one is designed
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| 236 | to redirect to a local URL within your site. You will <strong>not</strong> specify the full site URL, but rather simply the URI segments
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| 237 | to the controller you want to direct to. The function will build the URL based on your config file values.</p>
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| admin | e334c47 | 2006-10-21 19:44:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 239 | <p>The second parameter allows you to choose between the "location"
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| admin | b0dd10f | 2006-08-25 17:25:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 240 | method or the "refresh" method. Location is faster, but on Windows servers it can sometimes be a problem. Example:</p>
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| 242 | <code>if ($logged_in == FALSE)<br />
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| 244 | redirect('/login/form/', 'refresh');<br />
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| 245 | }</code>
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| 247 | <p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> In order for this function to work it must be used before anything is outputted
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| 248 | to the browser since it utilizes server headers.</p>
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