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Am I Loading this View wrong? - El Forum - 08-17-2012

[eluser]Kraig[/eluser]
This is my errior - Message: Undefined variable: user_info
On my home page I have a Views template that looks like this:

Code:
&lt;?php $this->load->view('includes/header'); ?&gt;

&lt;?php $this->load->view('includes/topMembers'); ?&gt;

&lt;?php $this->load->view('includes/news'); ?&gt;

&lt;?php $this->load->view($main_content); ?&gt;

&lt;?php $this->load->view('includes/footer'); ?&gt;

Now I'm trying to figure out how to create a topMembers controller that way I can load a model and get some topMembers information. Keep in mind that the topMember view is loaded onto my home page. I do have a topMembers controller, but for some reason when I "reload" the topMembers view with a variable it is not working. Am I going about this wrong? Here's my topMembers controller

Code:
class TopMembers extends CI_Controller {

 function index()

 {

  // Grabbing all the files associated with the current user

  $this->load->model("membership_model");

  $q = $this->membership_model->user_info();

  $data['user_info'] = $q;

  $this->load->view('includes/topMembers', $data);

 }

}

And here is my topMembers View

Code:
&lt;?php

 $user = array();

 foreach ($user_info as $value)

 {

  $user[] = $value['first_name'];

 }

?&gt;

//HTML below

Am I Loading this View wrong? - El Forum - 08-17-2012

[eluser]CroNiX[/eluser]
You're loading the topMembers view 2x, and the first time you're not sending data to it so $user_info comes up undefined.

Am I Loading this View wrong? - El Forum - 08-17-2012

[eluser]Kraig[/eluser]
So which load do I need to do? I want topMembers to be loaded onto the home page, and home page loads that template. Do I need to move my query over to the home pages controller in order to use it?

Am I Loading this View wrong? - El Forum - 08-17-2012

[eluser]Kraig[/eluser]
I did it through my home pages controller...seeing how that's the page that is loaded, and topMembers a subview. It works now, but is there a way of doing it the other way?

Am I Loading this View wrong? - El Forum - 08-17-2012

[eluser]Oscar Dias[/eluser]
If your views inside /include aren't going to change, you can create a library that loads that for you. Something like this:

Code:
class Common {

    function show($view, $data = array())

    {

        // Get current CI Instance

        $CI = & get_instance();

        // Grabbing all the files associated with the current user

        $CI->load->model("membership_model");

        $q = $CI->membership_model->user_info();

        $data_topMembers['user_info'] = $q;

        // Load include views

        $CI->load->view('includes/header');

        $CI->load->view('includes/topMembers', $data_topMembers);

        $CI->load->view('includes/news');

        $CI->load->view($view, $data);

        $CI->load->view('includes/footer');

    }

}

Depending on your needs this might be a good solution. You can pass additional parameters, for example SEO information for your header view... Then in your controller you do:

Code:
$this->load->library('common');

$this->common->show($main_content);