[eluser]pickupman[/eluser]
I also have a few extra properties in MY_Controller
Code:
class MY_Controller extends Controller{
public $view = ''; //view file to set an explicit view to override magic
public $jquery = ''; //jquery file to add a jquery script from a view
public $title = ''; //page title
public $content = ''; //page content set explicit content if not needing a view
public $data; //store for every view to use
public function __construct(){
parent::__construct();
}
protected function _display(){
//Guess view file
$method = $this->uri->segment(1,'home'); //set default controller as 2nd parameter
$action = $this->uri->segment(2,'index');
//Pass data to all views
$this->load->vars($this->data);
$this->load->view('header_view');
//Look for application/views/(controller name)/tpl.(action name).php
if(empty($this->view) && file_exists(APPPATH . 'views/' . strtolower($method) . '/tpl.'. $action.'.php')) {
$this->load->view(strtolower($method) . '/tpl.'. $action .'.php');
//Look for application/views/($this->view)
}elseif(!empty($this->view)){
$this->load->view($this->view);
//No views found lets just send something out from $content property
}else{
echo $this->content;
}
$this->load->view('sidebar_view');
$this->load->view('footer_view');
}
}
Now if you name your views to match your action names like you have /blog/view create a views with a structure like:
/application
/views
/blog
tpl.view.php
This will autoload the view for you by using $this->_display(); You could a add a sidebar property to it, and try to autoguess it, explicitly load it, or have a default sidebar using the exact code above.
Storing all the data under $this->data would be the most efficient as it is one object, rather than having $data_header, $data_sidebar, etc. Either way PHP is having to store the same amount of data in its memory regardless of how many variables, but PHP doesn't have to keep track of multiple variables.
