Better view files

Hmm, yeah I certainly don't want to echo out html using php but thanks...

I started a simple test with the html parser.

PHP Code:

class Template_test extends CI_Controller {

    public function index()
    {
        $this->db->select('*');
        $this->db->from('pages');
        $query = $this->db->get();
        
        $this->load->library('parser');

        $url1 = site_url('admin/template_test');

        $data = array(
                'url1'         => $url1,
                'page_title'   => 'My Page Title',
                'page_heading' => 'My Page Heading',
                'pages' => $query->result_array()
        );

        $this->load->view('admin/header');
        $this->load->view('admin/body');
        $this->parser->parse('admin/template/template-test', $data);
        $this->load->view('admin/footer');
    }

} 


And more view files looks a lot better:

Code:

<div class="pmf-container" >
    <div class="row pad" >
        <div class="col-sm-12">
            <header class="panel-heading font-bold">{page_title}</header>
            <section class="panel">
                <div class="panel-body">
                    {pages}
                        {name}
                    {/pages}

                </div>
            </section>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Like we discussed before I don't think there should be a great deal of logic in your views other than for loops and some simple if else statements. I like the idea of passing these vars to the view in a multi-dimensional array. Even removing the site_url() from the view and setting this as a one word variable and passing it to the view seems better. I'm also going to get rid of all the codeigniter form_helpers in the view, well most of them.

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