January 7th, 2010

Custom 404 Error Pages in Codeigniter (the easy way)

For those who have worked with the Codeigniter framework, you may have wanted to customize your error pages, specifically the 404. It looks like most of the developers on the forums are coming up with more complicated ways then necessary. The easiest way is to edit the following file:

/includes/application/errors/error_404.php

I opted for a customized background image, specific link and some modified copy. You could of course treat this like a view and do more dynamic things… but really? it’s a 404 page, let’s keep it simple people.

Here is an example of the one I put together: http://www.campuslive.com/somecrazyjibberishurl

One Response to “Custom 404 Error Pages in Codeigniter (the easy way)”

  1. Coder Says:
    January 8th, 2010 at 12:34 am

    Hi Jared,

    Nice bread, now how about some meat?

    Code for dumping the CI object to the screen for development debugging?

    Coder

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