How do I share data between my Controller's methods?

[eluser]onejaguar[/eluser]
Although it probably isn't as "clean" as setting a global variable for your class, I get tired of writing $this-> all the time so I often just pass the variable as a reference; e.g.:

Code:

function page_name()
{
   $view_data = array();
   $this->_init_common_data($view_data);

   $this->load->view('view_name', $view_data);
}

   // the & before the variable means this is a reference to the
   // original variable, not a copy.
function _init_common_data(&$data)
{
   $data['logged_in'] = $this->session->userdata('logged_in');
   $data['username'] = $this->session->userdata('username');
}