Building Sites
While Bonfire focuses on providing a powerful backend area for your sites, a number of the provided tools can be used within your front-end sites with minimal work. This includes some helper functions for working with dates, a user consent framework for helping you comply with some of the global privacy laws, like GDPR, new tools to build your views with, and more.
Much like any CodeIgniter application, your code will typically live in the /app folder, utilizing the standard
Controllers, Models, Views, and other folders for your code. You can, of course, located modules anywhere you
wish as long as the autoloader can find it. None of this changes using Bonfire. All of Bonfire's code is kept
in the vendor folder, where it will not conflict with your application's code. There are new config files to
keep an eye out for.
There is also an example frontpage with a full-blown App theme bonfire2-frontpage-theme for you to look at.
Alerts
Bonfire uses Tatter\Alerts to provide support for simple alerts. This section covers how to use alerts and flash messages.
Assets
Bonfire provides a simple assets system that allows you to serve CSS/JS assets from anywhere, handle browser caching, and cache-busting with updated assets.
View Components
View Components allow you to create custom HTML elements to use within your views. This section covers creating and using components.
Read more about View Components
Consent
The Consent module helps you manage collecting consent from users before storing any cookies through an opt-in system for all non-required cookies.
View Metadata
Bonfire provides a Metadata service that simplifies working with the meta information, scripts, and styles in your application.
Settings
Bonfire provides a simple interface that you can use in place of calling config() to allow you to read and store config values in the database.
Meta Info
Bonfire provides Entity-Attribute-Value style storage for additional data of entities used with your models. By default it can be used to add meta information to the entities managed by users model or your own admin modules.
Common Functions
Bonfire provides a few helper functions that are always available for your use, such as app_date for formatting dates.