load() method doesn't work

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.




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 !

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); 


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.

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

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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.

You might want to look into new View Layouts also, and see if they are something you're interested in.

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