Menu views and dynamic or static menu information needed.

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Menu views and dynamic or static menu information needed. - El Forum - 07-31-2012

[eluser]ytsejam[/eluser]
Hello ,
I am a newbie with CI. I want to write an application with a sidebar menu and information gathered from mysql database. I want to learn that which is better if menu items wont change much static or dynamic menu.

The other problem is that , I use pages controller to show pages

Code:
&lt;?php 

class Pages extends CI_Controller {

  public function view($page = 'home')

  {

   if ( ! file_exists('application/views/pages/'.$page.'.php'))

   {

    // Whoops, we don't have a page for that!

    show_404();

   }

   $data['title'] = ucfirst($page); // Capitalize the first letter

   $this->load->view('templates/header', $data);

   $this->load->view('pages/'.$page, $data);

   $this->load->view('templates/footer', $data);

  }

This is the menu I want :

Code:
+homepage

+about

+services

  +education

  +biofeedback

Where shall i put the menu controller ? If i use a seperate menu controller , how can i make it shown after header?

Menu views and dynamic or static menu information needed. - El Forum - 07-31-2012

[eluser]astroanu[/eluser]
what i do is use a different view file and load it using

Code:
$this->load->view('menu');

. or use a function to return the menu. so all you need to do it edit the links and text for the menu in a single place.