Custom controllers

Our system follows a simple MVC pattern which is straight forward and simple to understand. We've stripped out the complex design patterns to make the onboarding process and customization as simple as possible.

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The basic tenets for creating our own custom controllers is simple, we need to create.

  • Custom controller
  • Custom model
  • Custom view

In order to use our pre-existing global themes we have saved in the system, we need to use a custom controller. Then we can easily use the existing theme data and pass it to our custom views.

<?php
class Blog extends Ignitedcms 
{
    public function index()
    {
          // Now use theme global data in view
          $this->load->view('custom/name',$this->igsdata);
    }
}

IMPORTANT: Make sure you create all your custom controllers in the controllers > custom directory and all you models in the models > custom directory and all the view files in the views > custom directory

You can go into PHPMyAdmin and create your own custom table (prefixed with the database prefix you choose during the installation process) 

$query = $this->db->get('mytable');

foreach ($query->result() as $row)
{
     echo $row->title;
}