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frocco · 06-03-2015, 03:41 AM

(06-01-2015, 03:12 PM)RogerMore Wrote: Hey Frocco,

My project isn't anywhere near finished and I'm ripping my code apart to take the modules::run out, so bear with me when I try to simplify my code.

A page in my cms has sections like header, left, middle, right, footer. Every section can hold 1 or more elements like a text or menu view. A page also has one template with the section predefined in it.

Supersimple page template:

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> </style> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <?php if (isset($header)) echo $header; ?> </div> <div id="left"> <?php if (isset($left)) echo $left; ?> </div> <div id="middle"> <?php if (isset($middle)) echo $middle; ?> </div> <div id="right"> <?php if (isset($right)) echo $right; ?> </div> <div id="footer"> <?php if (isset($footer)) echo $footer; ?> </div> </body> </html>
I have one page controller which matches a slug to a page in the database and finds out which elements go with which sections. That data is reformatted into something that looks like:

Code:
Array ( [header] => Array ( [10] => Array ( [module] => html [view] => test [settings] => ) [20] => Array ( [module] => flexslider [view] => content [settings] => ) ) )

Here you can see that there are 2 elements found for section header. In a foreach loop the output for the section is created:

PHP Code:
foreach ($elements as $section => $element) { foreach ($element as $block) { // here should be a check if a certain library is already loaded // .. $this->load->library($block['module'].'/'.$block['module']); // this loads the html or flexslider library from the module with the same name $html = $this->$block['module']->$block['view']($block['settings']); // this call the method test from the html or the method content from the library flexslider which will create the output for the views. if (!isset($sections[$section])) $sections[$section] = ''; $sections[$section] .= $html; } }

After this all HTML for all sections is created and the array of $sections can be the data for the page template.

PHP Code:
$this->load->view("templates/{$pageTemplate}", $sections);

And boom, your page with all the good stuff is put to screen...

Hope this helps.

-Roger

Thank you