Putting the View back into MVC.

[eluser]zilverdistel[/eluser]
[quote author="dtrenz" date="1205442048"]OK.

2 Questions:

1) You keep saying that the view should get data from the model. Do you actually load models in your views? Or is this the CI vs. strict MVC difference again?

2) It seems like proper MVC usage of a view, which would contain a healthy dose of code for the presentation logic, is at odds with the goal of creating designer-friendly view files. Is it not?[/quote]

1> I load models in the controller, but I pull data from the model from within my views. About the second question: I tried to implement a full (I mean strict, and from my interpretation off course) MVC design, but I failed this, because I didn't include CI itself in the design. (Got a lot of trouble with objects, because in CI they inherit a lot of stuff from CI-superobject, which makes them pretty large. I couldn't store them properly in a session.)

2> You're right about that, and that's why I'm happy CI leaves us the choice. I don't know anything about templating libraries in CI, because I never used them, but my guess is that this problem can be tackled with templating. And also, nowadays with CSS and JS, if you supply the designers with a set of meaningfull (semantics!) id's and classes in the html, they can do everything they want. In other words: webstandards rule! (but that's another topic ;-)