Global functions

[eluser]mabright[/eluser]
This is what I am doing now, I get the header data in my controller and pass to the view. However I do not want to gather the same data in each of my controllers and pass to the common view.

Before I started using CI, I would have a global file with global variables and functions and in all my pages I could just use global variables instead of having to build the data in each page.

I want to replicate this in CI. I thought I could create a helper to do this by the data I am trying to retrieve using one of my custom library files and I cannot include it in the helper.

Can or should I call my library class from the view directly?