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rookie question - Sharing variable between functions - El Forum - 04-15-2010
[eluser]zoonix[/eluser]
I'm playing around trying to learn CI and so far it's great. I just have a question that is probably really basic. So I hope someone can point me in the right direction.
What is the best way to pass some data from one function to another in a controller?
If I have several functions and each one generates a status message when called. So how would I pass that message along to the index function. Or am I just completely daft and going about it all wrong?
Here's my test simple test code...
Code:
<?php
class Test extends Controller {
function Test() {
parent::Controller();
$this->load->helper(array('download', 'form', 'url'));
}
function index() {
if(isset($message)) {
$data['message'] = $message;
}
else{
$data['message'] = 'No Message';
}
$this->load->view('template', $data);
}
// Upload the csv file
function upload() {
$config['upload_path'] = './upload/ahca/';
$config['allowed_types'] = 'csv';
$this->load->library('upload', $config);
if ( ! $this->upload->do_upload()) {
$message = $this->upload->display_errors();
}
else {
$data['data'] = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());
$message = 'Successfully uploaded '.$data['data']['upload_data']['orig_name'];
}
redirect('it/ahca', 'refresh');
}
}Thanks!
rookie question - Sharing variable between functions - El Forum - 04-15-2010
[eluser]nelson.wells[/eluser]
Message could be a member of the controller class (in this case, Test). Instead of saying $message = "blah blah"; you would do $this->message = "blah blah blah". Since it is a member of the class, it doesn't go out of scope.
rookie question - Sharing variable between functions - El Forum - 04-15-2010
[eluser]n0xie[/eluser]
You should make a class variable of it if you want to share it between functions:
Code:
// instead of
$data['message'] = ...
// do this
$this->data['message'] = ...You also might want to take a look at my message library for passing messages around ;-)
rookie question - Sharing variable between functions - El Forum - 04-15-2010
[eluser]zoonix[/eluser]
Thanks Nelson, that looks like the simple answer I knew I was missing! I will give a go tonight.
n0xie's, your message library looks quite useful as well. Thanks man!