Template Library Version 1.4

[eluser]newsun[/eluser]
http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_base.asp is a good reference for the html base tag.

[quote author="M4rc0" date="1221318608"]Thanks for the _remap() tip.
So if i put template_render there, can i remove the template_render method from all functions within a controller?
Looks a lot better to me.

And yes, it was the absolute path problem
Funny i was typing and got the idea. I don't like absolute paths, when i change host i will have to change there again.
What's the correct way to concatenate with base_url() ? I couldn't do it.

Thanks Colin [/quote]

I usually create a method for displaying data with the template calls all grouped and then I just pass my data and content in. Something like this:

Code:

function _display_page ($title, $page_name)
    {
        $this->template->write('title',$title); #append data to title
        $view = $this->Views->retrieve_template($page_name); #retrieve the content from db
        $view = $this->template->parse_string($view, $this->config_data); #parse content for config vars, added this method to the Template class
        $this->template->write('content', $view); #write content region
        $this->template->render(); #render(output to screen) the template
    }

Then I might call this by

Code:

$this->_display_page('Home Page', 'home');

Then it would do all those things and I typically do all of these each time I display a page for different methods in my controller so each will call this. I have a bit of custom stuff here for pulling data out of a db instead of a file then parsing it for vars as a standard view file would. parse_string is something I extended the template library with. Just giving you an example of how you can make the framework into the structure you need it.