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why is my html fragment floating to the top of the page? - El Forum - 07-19-2012

[eluser]bill19[/eluser]
Hello everyone,

I am working with codeigniter 2.1 and twitter bootstrap to develop a site. I used php's domdocument to generate some dynamic html which I want to insert into a page.Unfortunately , the php generated fragment is now the first thing on the page when I look at the html source:

Code:
<div><h2>Available Now:</h2></div>
mod: 1mod: 2<div class="row"><div class="span6"><h2>13 mole st</h2><p>Fugazi</p><p><a class="btn" href="http://localhost/bootstrap1/index.php/template_controller/1">Learn More &raquo;</a></p></div><div class="span6"><h2>11 mole st</h2><p>Fugazi</p><p><a class="btn" href="http://localhost/bootstrap1/index.php/template_controller/2">Learn More &raquo;</a></p></div></div>

---------generated fragment is above

<!DOCTYPE html>
&lt;html lang="en"&gt;&lt;head>

I actually want to insert this further down the page, after the hero-unit view as you can see in my controller code.

my controller is as follows:

Code:
public function index()
        {
              
              
                $this->load->view('header'); // static HTML including doctype declaration
                $this->load->view('navbar'); // static HTML
                $this->load->view('hero_unit'); // static HTML
              
                $this->currentItems();  // my generated HTML ( which we are discussing )
            
                $this->load->view('footer'); // static HTML
                      
              
        }

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Bill

why is my html fragment floating to the top of the page? - El Forum - 07-19-2012

[eluser]Matalina[/eluser]
Are you echoing things in $this->currentItems?

why is my html fragment floating to the top of the page? - El Forum - 07-19-2012

[eluser]bill19[/eluser]
Yes,

Here's the code that generates a portion of the created html:

Code:
$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0'); //Create new document with specified version number
          $div= $dom->createElement('div') ;  
             $dom->appendChild($div);  
             $h3=$dom->createElement('h2','Available Now:');
             $div->appendChild($h3);
              echo $dom->saveHTML();

Its within currentItems()

Thanks for looking at it,

Bill

why is my html fragment floating to the top of the page? - El Forum - 07-19-2012

[eluser]Matalina[/eluser]
You can't echo in a controller. You have to load a view if you want it to display correctly with other views.

why is my html fragment floating to the top of the page? - El Forum - 07-19-2012

[eluser]CroNiX[/eluser]
CI uses buffering for the output of views. So, if you have an echo somewhere that isn't in a view, those echos will appear before the final output of the buffered views as it will output that first and then dump the contents of the buffer.

why is my html fragment floating to the top of the page? - El Forum - 07-19-2012

[eluser]bill19[/eluser]
Thanks for explaining that. I saved the output into an array and passed it into my view to echo out there.

Best regards,

Bill