GC not working, css files missing

Hi @johnny,
I have installed a brand new CI 4.3.6 using Composer, then I followed the instructions to install GC Enterprise. I get the (in)famous message “Ooooops, something went wrong!” and I couldn’t solve the issue, although I red all the instructions and watched the Youtube explanations.

It seems that the JS files are properly loaded (which proves that I copied correctly the assets folder), but CSS files are completely missing.

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Another thing that I noticed:
In the installation documentation there is a code line in the controller that seems to point to a file that does not exist:

include(APPPATH . 'Libraries/GroceryCrudEnterprise/autoload.php');

There are no other references to this file in the documentation (such as creating it manually), nor such a file is generated during the installation.

Please advise.

Hi rrit,
The required assets are in place. As you may see in my screenshot above, the JS files are found by GC in public/vendor/static/js folder. The css files are also in public/vendor/gocery-crud/css folder, but GC does not load them for unknown reasons. I also checked the access rights of the respective files under the webserver. Everything looks ok.

The theme I have configured for GC is bootstrap-v5, and I can access the css file through its url: {base_url}/vendor/grocery-crud/css/bootstrap-v5/bootstrap.min.css. I am completely puzzled.

And yes, I have installed CI 4.3.6 using composer.

Thanks.

You’re right, this is how it seems to work. But only the scripts, the styling is not loaded as requested. Instead the head section of the page contains this:
<link id="gc-css-font-awesome-v5" rel="stylesheet" href="https://{base_url}/vendor/grocery-crud/icons/font-awesome-v5/css/all.min.css">
<link id="gc-css-bootstrap-v5" rel="stylesheet" href="https://{base_url}/vendor/grocery-crud/css/bootstrap-v5/bootstrap.min.css">
<style data-jss data-meta="Unthemed"> [...] </style>

They seem to be some sort of “emergency” styling injected by GC because the actual css files are not found. Although there is no error in the browser console, which means that the css file is there . I know this because I put a data-source attribute to the requested css files, which is missing from the html output:
<?php foreach($css_files as $file): ?>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" data-source="requested-css" href="<?php echo $file; ?>" />
<?php endforeach; ?>

Also, in the <head> there are some additional js files loaded automatically by the GC, not by the view, probably some internal logic of the js files.

I am pretty sure it is a bug. I’m waiting for @johnny to clarify this, he would know the answer.

So, is not a bug, is an undocumented feature

I think that more importantly is to specify in the documentation the position of the js files loading, which should be at the end of the body element. That discovery of @Aserfozo72 was the trick that made it work.