pre_render() event

It would be great if there was a pre_render () event, so you could inject data into the view automatically. As for example, data referring to the session.

EDIT: Oops, sorry, did not realise this was for CI4, my answer is for CI3, my bad :-(

You can refer to session data directly in the view, so in a header for instance you can check if a session username is set and show it or show a log in button, for instance.

You can also fetch a view, with data sent to it like normal, and have the fully rendered HTML passed back as a string. Then you can 'inject' whatever you want, whatever 'inject' means.

PHP Code:

$html = $this->load->view('home', $data, TRUE); // third option returns view as string. 


Is this what you meant by 'pre-render'?

Paul.

That's an interesting suggestion. I have a feeling this might have been prompted by watching my failed attempt to do something similar in the repo for validation errors. I was having a brain-fart at that moment, though, and simply using session('key') worked out pretty well, though might not so well in the parser.

I can also see this being very handy for other site-wide things you might want to make available, like things for the HTML meta tags, etc.

The biggest problem I can see is the event would be ran for every nested view, also, and quickly become a performance hit. I'll have to think on a good solution for this, but it's definitely a good idea.

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The events class should be handling this using event triggers in the view.

But this would need to be checked in the core class methods and for firing the triggers.

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I was doing an authentication system and I found that in each controller I have to pass user data, roles, etc. That's why I get the idea of an event that does it automatically in each render. Try to make the event, but run up to five times per render, it is not efficient.