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Hopefully I can explain this well, but it seems the controllers don't act as a regular class. I can't create a protected variable within the class and make setters and getters.
The problem I have is the repetition of code. For example I have a controller named Home, of which has several functions for each page, "home", "about", "contact" etc. I'm also using the template class, though that doesn't matter too much I don't think.
Anyway, on some of these I have several repeating variables, such as $data['content'] but some that change, such as $data['title']. I tried instantiating the array in the constructor, but that doesn't work. So like regular OO Php, I tried making a protected (switched to just var) outside of the constructor and tried using this:
Code:
class Home extends Controller{
var $arr;
function Home()
{
parent::Controller();
$tmp = array();
$this->load->library('parser');
$this-arr = array(
"content"=>""content" => $this->parser->parse('pages/conte/home_content_view',$tmp, TRUE)");
}
function index(){
... etc
Right now I have about 6 variables stored in the array, and on about half of the pages, 3-4 of the variable are the same. Some variables in the template I have blank, such as the admin menu which will only show up if you are logged in as admin. So I'd like to instantiate those variables as blank, such as $data['admin'] = "";
So how do I go about doing this, I've made my own classes before and I was always able to do things like $this->arr = $myArray; but I get "unexpected =" errors.
Is it possible to create an assoc array that is used by all functions in a particular controller class? Or do I have to repeat my code in each function? This makes making any changes a bit tedious, as I have to change every function and doesn't seem very scalable. This is what OOP is supposed to take care of, right?
