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.