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05-30-2008, 07:10 PM

[eluser]gtech[/eluser]
take a look at the template parser class, its aim is to remove the need for php in the view files.

[url="http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/parser.html"]http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/parser.html[/url]

You can even use arrays (or variable pairs as they are labeled in the docs) which you build up in the controller, avoiding the need to use a foreach loop in the view. Its simple to use and the documentation is good and to the point.

example from docs:
view:

Code:
&lt;body&gt;

  <h3>{blog_heading}</h3>

  {blog_entries}

    <h5>{title}</h5>

    <p>{body}</p>

  {/blog_entries}

&lt;/body&gt;

controller:

Code:
$this->load->library('parser');

$data = array(

              'blog_heading' => 'My Blog Heading',

              'blog_entries' => array(

                                      array('title' => 'Title 1', 'body' => 'Body 1'),

                                      array('title' => 'Title 2', 'body' => 'Body 2')

                                      )

            );

// instead of using $this->load->view

$this->parser->parse('blog_template', $data);