CI2.0 - View files in third_party packages

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class MY_Loader extends CI_Loader {

    

    var $_ci_view_paths = array(); //++

    

    function CI_Loader()

    {    

        $this->_ci_view_path = APPPATH.'views/';

        $this->_ci_ob_level  = ob_get_level();

        $this->_ci_library_paths = array(APPPATH, BASEPATH);

        $this->_ci_helper_paths = array(APPPATH, BASEPATH);

        $this->_ci_model_paths = array(APPPATH);

        $this->_ci_view_paths = array(APPPATH); //++

            

        log_message('debug', "Loader Class Initialized");

    }

    

    function add_package_path($path)

    {

        array_unshift($this->_ci_library_paths, $path);

        array_unshift($this->_ci_model_paths, $path);

        array_unshift($this->_ci_helper_paths, $path);

        array_unshift($this->_ci_view_paths, $path); //++

            

        // Add config file path

        $config =& $this->_ci_get_component('config');

        array_unshift($config->_config_paths, $path);

    }

    

    function _ci_load($_ci_data)

    {

        // Set the default data variables

        foreach (array('_ci_view', '_ci_vars', '_ci_path', '_ci_return') as $_ci_val)

        {

            $$_ci_val = ( ! isset($_ci_data[$_ci_val])) ? FALSE : $_ci_data[$_ci_val];

        }



        // Set the path to the requested file

        if ($_ci_path == '')

        {

            $_ci_ext = pathinfo($_ci_view, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);

            $_ci_file = ($_ci_ext == '') ? $_ci_view.EXT : $_ci_view;

            $_ci_path = $this->_ci_view_path.$_ci_file;

        }

        else

        {

            $_ci_x = explode('/', $_ci_path);

            $_ci_file = end($_ci_x);

        }

        

        foreach($this->_ci_view_paths as $path) { //++

            if (file_exists($path . 'views/' . $_ci_view . EXT)) { //++

                $_ci_path = $path . 'views/' . $_ci_view . EXT; //++

            } //++

        } //++

        

        if ( ! file_exists($_ci_path))

        {

            show_error('Unable to load the requested file: '.$_ci_file);

        }

    

        // This allows anything loaded using $this->load (views, files, etc.)

        // to become accessible from within the Controller and Model functions.

        // Only needed when running PHP 5

        

        if ($this->_ci_is_instance())

        {

            $_ci_CI =& get_instance();

            foreach (get_object_vars($_ci_CI) as $_ci_key => $_ci_var)

            {

                if ( ! isset($this->$_ci_key))

                {

                    $this->$_ci_key =& $_ci_CI->$_ci_key;

                }

            }

        }



        /*

         * Extract and cache variables

         *

         * You can either set variables using the dedicated $this->load_vars()

         * function or via the second parameter of this function. We'll merge

         * the two types and cache them so that views that are embedded within

         * other views can have access to these variables.

         */    

        if (is_array($_ci_vars))

        {

            $this->_ci_cached_vars = array_merge($this->_ci_cached_vars, $_ci_vars);

        }

        extract($this->_ci_cached_vars);

                

        /*

         * Buffer the output

         *

         * We buffer the output for two reasons:

         * 1. Speed. You get a significant speed boost.

         * 2. So that the final rendered template can be

         * post-processed by the output class.  Why do we

         * need post processing?  For one thing, in order to

         * show the elapsed page load time.  Unless we

         * can intercept the content right before it's sent to

         * the browser and then stop the timer it won't be accurate.

         */

        ob_start();

                

        // If the PHP installation does not support short tags we'll

        // do a little string replacement, changing the short tags

        // to standard PHP echo statements.

        

        if ((bool) @ini_get('short_open_tag') === FALSE AND config_item('rewrite_short_tags') == TRUE)

        {

            echo eval('?&gt;'.preg_replace("/;*\s*\?&gt;/", "; ?&gt;", str_replace('&lt;?=', '&lt;?php echo ', file_get_contents($_ci_path))));

        }

        else

        {

            include($_ci_path); // include() vs include_once() allows for multiple views with the same name

        }

        

        log_message('debug', 'File loaded: '.$_ci_path);

        

        // Return the file data if requested

        if ($_ci_return === TRUE)

        {        

            $buffer = ob_get_contents();

            @ob_end_clean();

            return $buffer;

        }



        /*

         * Flush the buffer... or buff the flusher?

         *

         * In order to permit views to be nested within

         * other views, we need to flush the content back out whenever

         * we are beyond the first level of output buffering so that

         * it can be seen and included properly by the first included

         * template and any subsequent ones. Oy!

         *

         */    

        if (ob_get_level() > $this->_ci_ob_level + 1)

        {

            ob_end_flush();

        }

        else

        {

            // PHP 4 requires that we use a global

            global $OUT;

            $OUT->append_output(ob_get_contents());

            @ob_end_clean();

        }

    }

    

}