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03-01-2008, 07:32 AM

[eluser]deadfrog[/eluser]
Hi! I've noticed I'm calling a lot of the same things in my controller, for example I'm creating a data array which passes title,meta keywords & descriptions, and loads in my 'includes'. What I thought I could do would be to create a new controller, which the other controllers could inherit from. This main controller would store (for example) a default title,meta keywords & description and also enable me to pass new 'includes' to every page in one go.

It doesn't work (no error, just a blank page) and I'm sure the reason for that is my lack of expertise and failure to connect it up properly - if someone could advise me that would be terrific.

Here's my application controller:

Code:
&lt;?php

class Application extends Controller {

    $data['html_title'] = 'Default Title';

    $data['meta_description'] = 'Default Description';

    $data['meta_keywords'] = 'Default Keywords';

    $data['html_header'] = $this->load->view('includes/html_header', $data, TRUE);

    $data['header'] = $this->load->view('includes/header', '', TRUE);

    $data['footer'] = $this->load->view('includes/footer', '', TRUE);

    function Application()

    {

        parent::Controller();            

    }

}

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And here's my home controller:

Code:
&lt;?php

class Home extends Application {

    function Home()

    {

        parent::Application();

    }

    function index()

    {

        $data['html_title'] = 'This page Title';

        $data['meta_description'] = 'This page Description';

        $data['meta_keywords'] = 'This page Keywords';

        $this->load->view('home',$data);

    }

}

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