code duplication advice

[eluser]rootman[/eluser]
The problem about your approach jwindhorst is imho that you have to call the function every time you want to create output and you got to pass the header/footer data every single time. This is excactly what I want to avoid.

My structure is like this: I have a view and i include the header and the footer inside of the view. This way i have full control over my output inside of my views and the designer can even integrate different headers without touching the controller. I dont want to create complicated constructs to load different views with different data for each one, I wanna keep it simple Just make some variables globally availiable in all views, as if I passed them. Maybe there is a way to pass global variables in advance and just let them "hang" there, no matter if used or not.

Sure i could write a helper that pulls in the desired variables, but I believe that to be over the top, shouldnt it be simple just to tell the output class to have some more vars availiable? I dont want the designer to notice that there is something even going on different from the normal approach ...