Tank Auth v1.0 (CI authentication library)

[eluser]jshultz[/eluser]
I'm trying to figure out how to get the views to appear in a particular location on the page. In other words, I have a page design and have got my regular views, etc. to appear as how I want them. However, now that i'm adding tank_auth into the mix I don't know enough about codeigniter to get everything to work together and play nice.

I've spent the past couple of days googling trying to figure this out but have not had much success.

So far this is what I have:

I have a site controller which contains my index and about functions. Each of those functions loads a collection of views that renders the pages. site is the default controller as of now. However, I modified it to contain the following:

Code:

function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();

        $this->load->helper('url');
        $this->load->library('tank_auth');
    }

This is at the top inside the Site class

inside the index function I have the following:

Code:

if (!$this->tank_auth->is_logged_in()) {
            redirect('/auth/login/');
        } else {
            $data['user_id']    = $this->tank_auth->get_user_id();
            $data['username']    = $this->tank_auth->get_username();
            $this->load->view('welcome', $data);
        }

which, as you know, loads the Auth class.

I have left this alone for the most part, except for the following. in each of the following functions (login() and register())I've added :

Code:

$this->load->view('header', $header_data);
      $this->load->view('menu');
      $this->load->view('sidebar', $sidebar_data);
      $this->load->view('content', $content_data);
      $this->load->view('footer');

This is the basic format of my sites pages and I'm using blueprint css for the css framework.

As you might have surmised I am new to codeigniter and I may be doing this all the hard way. I am determined to learn it however and will figure it out. Any help you can provide would be really appreciated.