multiple views per controller

[eluser]Pascal Kriete[/eluser]
[quote author="Michael Wales" date="1200715586"]Nice!

For all who want to get a header/footer on your pages very easily - without retyping this within every controller - just extend the Controller class with a constructor/destructor.


Code example (not tested, but should work if my thinking is correct), ghetto-fied for PHP4 support:

/application/libraries/MY_Controller.php

Code:

class Public_Controller {
  function Public_Controller() {
    parent::Controller();
    register_shutdown_function(array(&$this, "shutdown"));
    $this->load->view('header');
  }

  // Ghetto destructor for PHP4 support
  function shutdown() {
    $this->load->view('footer');
  }
}

[/quote]

Looks very nice, but doesn't quite work for me. Well for one, you forgot to extend the Controller. But even then the shutdown function gets called (what does the & in front of the $this do?), but it doesn't actually load the view.