phpcodeignitercodeigniter-4

How to open a new page with button Link?

So, I am working on simple website for my office using codeigniter 4 and it's really different with the one I tried during my university days.

My problem is a button which link to our form page. But everytime I click on it, it's 404 Page not found.

My Config\App.php

public string $baseURL = 'http://myproject.loc/';
public string $indexPage = '';

This is the button for my homepage

<a href="<?php echo site_url('Home/formschedule') ?>">
   <button> Create Consular Appointment
   </button>
</a>

When I click the button, the url becomes

http://myproject.loc/Home/formschedule

This is my controller

public function formschedule(): string {
        return view('vForm');
    }

But the result is 404 Page Not Found

So far, I only created the view like this because I want to make sure it's linked successfully to another page. Here's my vForm

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
Form
</body>
</html>

I did try something by creating Routes and it's kinda working

$routes->get('/Home/formschedule', 'Home::formschedule');

But I am not sure it is the best way to do that because that means I will have to create so many routes.

So is there anyway I can fix it? Thank you in advance guys!

Solution

  • I think you're looking for the "auto route" feature.

    To enable it you can add this line of code to your Routes.php file

    $routes->setAutoRoute(true);

    You can use both manual routing and auto routing in your CI4 project.

    The public method formschedule inside the class Home will generate the url /Home/formschedule for all types of requests (POST, GET, PUT, etc.).

    You can read more about routing in CI4 here.