Application structure question

[eluser]shaffick[/eluser]
Here's my temporary workaround for the "shared" components.

My application runs on 2 templates - home and inner.

To add that piece of shared component on the right hand menu (across all pages) and not having to updates all controllers and functions, I added an ajax call that loads the some URL into an empty DIV.

e.g url: site.com/myNewController/SomeFunction

where someFunction grabs whatever info I need from the database and passes the info to a view file to format the data the way I want.

I hope this helps if someone is looking for a non-ordinary solution.