Widget plugin (intelligent view partials)

[eluser]wiredesignz[/eluser]
An example widget class, application/widgets/user_login.php

Code:

class User_login extends Widget
{
    function run($visible = FALSE) {
        
        if ($post = $this->input->post('loginform')) {
            if ($post['username'] == 'admin') {
                $query = $this->db->query("SELECT uid FROM user WHERE username='admin'");
                $result = $query->row();
                
                set_cookie('ci_user', $result->uid, 86500);
                redirect();
            }
        }
        
        if ($visible) $this->render('user_login');
    }
}

and its view, application/widgets/views/user_login.php

Code:

<div class="widget">
<div class="header">Login</div>
<div class="content">
&lt;form action="" method="post"&gt;
<div class="row">
<label for="loginform_username">Username</label><br/>
&lt;input name="loginform[username]" id="loginform_username" type="text" value="" /&gt;&lt;/div>
<div class="row">
<label for="loginform_password">Password</label><br/>
&lt;input name="loginform[password]" id="loginform_password" type="password" value="" /&gt;&lt;/div>
<div class="row">
&lt;input type="hidden" value="0" name="loginform[rememberme]" /&gt;&lt;input name="loginform[rememberme]" id="loginform_rememberme" value="1" type="checkbox" /><label for="loginform_rememberme">Remember me next time</label></div>
<div class="row">
&lt;input type="submit" value="Login" /&gt;&lt;/div>
&lt;/form&gt;
</div></div>