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How to accomplish this - El Forum - 04-16-2011
[eluser]jfenety[/eluser]
How can I accomplish this problem without repeating a bunch of code. I have a view, header.php that is loaded from the controller $this->load->view(header.php) for each page that needs the header. Example, I have three controllers, one for main, one for about, and one for contact. The code has to be in each of these.
I want to have a Welcome, user at the top of the screen. I am using tank auth, in the controller I call isloggedin and then pass the username to the view from the controller. Is there a way I can do this without having to put this statement into every controller that needs the header.php?
Could I call the tank auth library from the view, and get the user name in the view? Or would this introduce problems, or ruin the MVC architecture?
Jfenety
How to accomplish this - El Forum - 04-16-2011
[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
Create a template_view.php
Code:
<?php echo $this->load->view('header_view);?>
<?php echo $this->load->view('content_view);?>
<?php echo $this->load->view('footer_view);?>In your Controller you can do this:
Code:
$data = array()
$data['welcome'] = 'assiging your tank auth user name here etc';
// add more $data parametes here! You can change them in your controllers.
// this will pass $data to all the views in template_view.php
$this->load->vars($data);
$this->load->view('template_view');InsiteFX
How to accomplish this - El Forum - 04-16-2011
[eluser]jfenety[/eluser]
Thanks for your help,
Should I create a base_controller that all my other controllers inherit from? That way, I would just have the welcome message code in the base_controller, and then would never have to repeat it?
How to accomplish this - El Forum - 04-16-2011
[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
Yes, that would be the way to go!
Code:
// MY_Controller - application/core/MY_Controller.php
class MY_Controller extends CI_Controller {
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
}
// Admin_Controller - application/core/Admin_Controller.php
class Admin_Controller extends MY_Controller {
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
}
// Public_Controller - application/core/Public_Controller.php
class Public_Controller extends MY_Controller {
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
}
// You will also need to add this to the bottom of - application/config/config.php
/*
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
| Native Autoload - by Phil Sturgeon.
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Nothing to do with config/autoload.php, this allows PHP autoload to work
| for base controllers and some third-party libraries.
|
| If using HMVC you do not need this! HMVC will autoload.
|
| Place this code at the bottom of your application/config/config.php file.
*/
function __autoload($class)
{
if (strpos($class, 'CI_') !== 0)
{
@include_once(APPPATH . 'core/' . $class . EXT);
}
}Admin_Controller - for backend Dashboard etc.
Public_Controller - for frontend.
InsiteFX
How to accomplish this - El Forum - 04-16-2011
[eluser]jfenety[/eluser]
Thanks a lot,
I am working on a site similar to kijiji, but for only a specific need and for a specific market base. Its sort of a pet project, to learn php better. This gives me a great start to understand the code igniter framework, and to tinker away for a while in php.
jfenety.