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12-06-2008, 03:31 AM

[eluser]garrettheel[/eluser]
Just wondering what the best way to go about using a default view for all pages would be. Coming from a Cake PHP background, it would be something similar to the default view for cakephp where you have your header and footer in a view, and then you have a variable inbetween which inserts all of middle content.

12-06-2008, 03:52 AM

[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
a quick an dirty way to do it is to set up a post-controller hook where you load the site/section template and use the load->vars method for adding the partial views and the content for those views. You don't have the syntactic sugar but it gets the job done.

12-06-2008, 03:55 AM

[eluser]garrettheel[/eluser]
There's no clean and simple way to do it then? Surely this is done on most applications so there should be some sort of common way that everyone does it.

12-06-2008, 04:54 AM

[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
There are libraries you can check out that provide a clean way but i don't think it can be simpler than the solution i proposed as it uses the already existing functionality of the framework.

Code:
// template.php

function get_template() // basic function 

{

   $CI =& get_instance();

   $CI->load->view('layout'); 

}

// config/hooks.php

$hook['post_controller'] = array(

                                'class'    => '',

                                'function' => 'get_template',

                                'filename' => 'template.php',

                                'filepath' => 'hooks',

                                );

// views/layout.php

&lt;html&gt;

&lt;head&gt;

&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title>

&lt;head&gt;

&lt;body&gt;

&lt;?php echo $content ?&gt;

&lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

// some_controller.php

function some_function()

{

   $array = array('some_view_var'=>'value',

                  'content'=>$this->load->view('some_view','',TRUE));

   $this->load->vars($array);

}

The some_view_var value is magically attached to the var in some_view and the some_view is added to the layout. I think it's a very flexible way of using a base template layout.