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load() method doesn't work - blaudroid - 01-08-2020
Hello there,
since 1 week i started to get into the whole MVC World. And because my understanding of it equals null i was unsuccessful with CakePHP, Symfony or Laravel. Then i found the Codeigniter.
I was experimenting with Routing and AJAX and Controllers and now i want to make myself a template in the Views folder. I tried to include the so called header.php and footer.php in my home.php page but i doesn't work. After some research i found out that in Codeigniter you can't just do an include like in conventional php.
After another research i found a way to do it but my Codeigniter seems to not recognize the method i am using although for everyone else works without for them to do anything.
My Code looks like this:
PHP Code:
<?php namespace App\Controllers;
class Home extends BaseController
{
public function index()
{
$pageData = [
'header' => $this->load->view('header.php', NULL, TRUE),
'footer' => $this->load->view('footer.php', NULL, TRUE),
'tabTitle' => 'Online Shop MTFKS!'
];
return view('home.php', $pageData);
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------
}
This call $this->load seems not to be existent. My PHPStorm throws me an error everytime i click on it.
![[Image: jSNcdf0.png]](https://i.imgur.com/jSNcdf0.png)
I am stuck and i don't know how can i go further.
I have to mention that when i installed the Codeigniter Framework i just downloaded it and extracted it in my project folder as mentioned in the Docs. Then i followed the docs to finish setting it up. But somehow i think something is missing. And whenever i try to install it composer it just doesn't run, my powershell is stuck on an empty line.
When i run this code my website just gives me the standard CI Whoops! Error.
Thank you !
RE: load() method doesn't work - maxxd - 01-08-2020
You're mixing versions 3 and 4.
PHP Code:
$this->load->view('your-view', $data);
is CodeIgniter 3. In CI4, use
PHP Code:
echo view('your-view', $data);
RE: load() method doesn't work - InsiteFX - 01-09-2020
Because you are doing it wrong, there is no load view anymore.
PHP Code:
<?php namespace App\Controllers;
class Home extends BaseController
{
public function index()
{
$pageData = [
'tabTitle' => 'Online Shop MTFKS!'
];
echo view('header');
echo view('home', $pageData);
echo view('footer'),
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------
}
That's how you do it now.
RE: load() method doesn't work - blaudroid - 01-09-2020
Thank you very much ! I was looking in stackoverflow the whole time but i forgot that i was starting with CI 4 and not CI 3 and that the posts are outdated.
Now i did it this way to save some time.
Controller/Home.php
PHP Code:
<?php namespace App\Controllers;
class Home extends BaseController
{
public function index()
{
$headerData = [
'tabTitle' => 'Online Shop',
'tabHome' => 'active'
];
echo $this->viewTemplate('home.php', $headerData);
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------
}
Controller/BaseController
PHP Code:
public function viewTemplate($viewName, $headerData = [], $footerData = [], $viewData = [])
{
echo view('header.php', $headerData);
echo view($viewName, $viewData);
echo view('footer.php', $footerData);
}
Now it works great.
RE: load() method doesn't work - kilishan - 01-09-2020
You might want to look into new View Layouts also, and see if they are something you're interested in.
RE: load() method doesn't work - littlej - 01-10-2020
And the view parser :-)
https://codeigniter4.github.io/CodeIgniter4/outgoing/view_parser.html