How to change the extension in view using codeigniter 3?

Question

Here's my problem I setup Codeigniter 3 in my local and use an thirdparty (MX thing) now that I have adjusted the file path, I wanted to change the file extension that is being fetch the controller.

$this->load->view('welcome_message');

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I change the file in views from:

welcome_message.php

to this

welcome_message.html

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Now I get this error

An Error Was Encountered
Unable to load the requested file: welcome_message.php

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but I wanted to use the .html extension becuase the folder path that I will be using will only contain html/js/css (template folder) files only (i will separate the php files to template folder). How can this possibly happen?

Any help is greatly appreciated, Thanks guys!

Answer 1

You don't need to change extension to html, you can use html in a php file, just don't open php tag.

EDIT :

If you really have to change the ext, just do :

$this->load->view('welcome_message.html'); 

Answer 2

You can try to change it using route configuration in application/config/routes.php

Then, you can use:

$route['[your controller]/welcome_message'] = '[your controller]/welcome_message.html';

For for information about routes, you can check official documentarion here:

http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html

Or you can use Static pages:

http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/tutorial/static_pages.html

Regards.