Application structure question

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
You could take the Modular approach with Modular Extensions or Matchbox (or even create a Sidebar controller and call it using Wick).

Or, you could make a class that extends Controller - place all of your code shared across controllers in it - then extend your normal Controller class off of this one.

Code:

class BaseController extends Controller {
  function __construct() {
    parent::Controller();
    $this->load->model('sidebar');
    $this->data->sidebar = $this->sidebar->get();
  }
}

class Users extends BaseController {
}