Using PHP's "virtual" function messes up CodeIgniter includes?

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Using PHP's "virtual" function messes up CodeIgniter includes? - El Forum - 07-05-2007

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
I have a strange problem that I'm seeing on a site. When one of my includes uses PHP's "virtual" function to load some content, some of my other includes don't appear to be included.

Here's a test I created. I have a controller, and in it I put the following action:

Code:
function test_include()

    {

        $data['title'] = "Title";

        $this->load->view('workshops/test_include', $data);

    }

The test_include view looks like this:

Code:
&lt;?php $this->load->view('includes/header'); ?&gt;

    &lt;?php $this->load->view('includes/test'); ?&gt;

&lt;?php $this->load->view('includes/footer'); ?&gt;

The problem occurs because of this line in the "header" include:

Code:
&lt;?php virtual("/cgi-bin/breadcrumb.cgi"); ?&gt;

The contents of "includes/footer" do appear on the page, but not the contents of "includes/test". If I remove the call to "virtual" from "includes/header", then everything works as expected.

Any idea why this would happen or how to work around it?

Using PHP's "virtual" function messes up CodeIgniter includes? - El Forum - 07-05-2007

[eluser]Bulk[/eluser]
I would imagine it has something to do with the fact that calling virtual() causes all internal php output buffers to be flushed, and as the CI output/loader classes makes use of those buffers in its output it causes the output to terminate early - thus your odd results...