Your First application is a simplest application that will display some text on the screen. Its a simple application for beginners to understand basic syntax and working of codeigniter MVC framework.
Before starting with this tutorial I assume that you already have a CodeIgniter application installed and configured (removed index.php from url), if u r not removed please refer Codeigniter Configuration
step1:
Lets start be making a basic controller class file. Create a new file in the ‘controllers’ directory and name it ‘hello.php’.
step2:
write this following code inside hello.php
<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
class Hello extends CI_Controller {
public function index()
{
$this->load->view('hello_world');
}
}
?>
step3:
Now, create a new file in the ‘views’ directory and name it ‘hello_world.php’.
step4:
Put the following code snippet in ‘hello_world.php’.