Changeset 2004 for trunk/application/controllers/welcome.php

Timestamp:

02/08/2008 07:20:03 PM (11 months ago)

Author:

Shadowhand

Message:

Updated default welcome controller and views. Much more attractive now.

Files:

• trunk/application/controllers/welcome.php (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/application/controllers/welcome.php

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <?php defined('SYSPATH') or die('No direct script access.');
 /**
+ * @package Core
+ *
  * Default Kohana controller.
  */
@@ -7 +9 @@
         public function index()
         {
+                // In Kohana, all views are loaded and treated as objects.
                 $welcome = new View('welcome');
-                $welcome->message = 'This is the default Kohana index page. You can edit <tt>application/controllers/welcome.php</tt> now.';
+
+                // You can assign anything variable to a view by using standard OOP
+                // methods. In my welcome view, the $title variable will be assigned
+                // the value I give it here.
+                $welcome->title = 'Welcome to Kohana!';
+
+                // An array of links to display. Assiging variables to views is completely
+                // asyncronous. Variables can be set in any order, and can be any type
+                // of data, including objects.
+                $welcome->links = array
+                (
+                        'License' => url::base(FALSE).'Kohana License.html',
+                        'Home Page' => 'http://kohanaphp.com/',
+                        'Documentation' => 'http://doc.kohanaphp.com/',
+                        'Forum' => 'http://forum.kohanaphp.com/',
+                );
+
+                // Using views inside of views is completely transparent. In the welcome
+                // view, printing the $content variable will render the welcome_content view.
+                $welcome->content = new View('welcome_content');
+
+                // Using render(TRUE) forces the view to display now, instead of
+                // returning an HTML string.
                 $welcome->render(TRUE);
         }
 
+        public function _default()
+        {
+                // By defining a method called _default, all pages routed to this controller
+                // that result in 404 errors will be handled by this method, instead of
+                // being displayed as "Page Not Found" errors.
+                echo 'This is a _default handler. If you expected the index page, you need to use: welcome/index/'.substr(Router::$current_uri, 8);
+        }
+
 }