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Equavalent of Cake "Elements" - El Forum - 07-18-2008
[eluser]august.gresens[/eluser]
Hello
I'm a recent convert to CI, having abandoned the intricacies of CakePHP for something a bit more transparent.
There are a few features I miss, one being the "Elements" construct.
I'm sure there is an easy way to do the same thing in CI.
Do I just use include directives?
Thanks,
August
Equavalent of Cake "Elements" - El Forum - 07-19-2008
[eluser]m4rw3r[/eluser]
You can use $this->load->view(); inside another view to load subviews (or "view elements").
They share the same variables as the view that included them (I think).
Equavalent of Cake "Elements" - El Forum - 07-19-2008
[eluser]Bramme[/eluser]
You're right m4rw3r, it does share it...
What often do is create an index view file that looks like this
Code:
<?php
$this->load->view('header');
$this->load->view($page);
$this->load->view('footer');
?>And then you can make your controller look like
Code:
//do lots of nifty things
$data['page'] = 'myviewfile';
$this->load->('index', $data);All variables passed to index, will get passed to footer, header and $page.
Equavalent of Cake "Elements" - El Forum - 07-20-2008
[eluser]august.gresens[/eluser]
After searching some more, I found this info on the forums with some code to do this:
http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/66997/
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