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12-06-2008, 05:35 PM

[eluser]garrettheel[/eluser]
The template library just allows for smarty-like php variables and statements in the views, does it not? I wasn't aware that the template library allowed for a way to include a global header and footer as default on all pages?

12-06-2008, 05:40 PM

[eluser]dpgtfc[/eluser]
[quote author="garrettheel" date="1228628131"]The template library just allows for smarty-like php variables and statements in the views, does it not? I wasn't aware that the template library allowed for a way to include a global header and footer as default on all pages?[/quote]

Maybe I am misunderstanding. When you say "header" and "footer" You mean the old school:

include "header.inc";

right?

If you have a template, why do you need a header and footer?

You do this in the controller:

Code:
function index()

{

   $sub_view_array = array();

   $template_vars = array();

   $data['main_content']= $this->parser->parse('sub_view',$sub_view_array,true);

   $this->parser->parse('main_template',$template_vars);

}

With a template system you don't need a header and a footer.

12-06-2008, 05:42 PM

[eluser]garrettheel[/eluser]
Maybe that is what I'm looking for..

If it's not too much trouble, could you give me a basic example of the index function with the header and footer included? (assuming they're both simply views)

12-06-2008, 05:51 PM

[eluser]dpgtfc[/eluser]
[quote author="garrettheel" date="1228628558"]Maybe that is what I'm looking for..

If it's not too much trouble, could you give me a basic example of the index function with the header and footer included? (assuming they're both simply views)[/quote]

With a template the header and footer don't need to be in seperate views. You would have one single php file like so:

Code:
&lt;html&gt;

   &lt;head&gt;

   &lt;/head&gt;

   &lt;body&gt;

        <div id="topnav">{topnav}</div>

        <div id="wrapper">

           <div id="left-menu">{leftmenu}</div>

           <div id="content">

            {content}

            </div>

        </div>

   &lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

I mean you could, but there would be no benefit from it, as you can make any part of the single template entirely dynamic based on the controller.

12-06-2008, 11:19 PM

[eluser]garrettheel[/eluser]
So I get the templating system deal, but how are the variables $content and such passed to the view? Don't I need to explicitly state this somewhere?

12-07-2008, 04:49 PM

[eluser]garrettheel[/eluser]
Shameless bump..

12-08-2008, 04:24 AM

[eluser]Pascal Kriete[/eluser]

Quote:So basically what I’m trying to make is a page handler that is called at the end of a function when I want to display a page instead of $this->load->view(‘blah’);

Lots of ways to do this. You can nest views, so you could create a template view:

Code:
&lt;html&gt;

&lt;?php $this->load->view('general/header'); ?&gt;

&lt;?php $this->load->view($content); ?&gt;

&lt;?php $this->load->view('general/footer'); ?&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

And then all you would need to do is define a content variable that references another view:

Code:
$data['title'] = 'My great Title';

$data['animal'] = 'Pelican';

$data['content'] = 'earth/fauna';

$this->load->view('general/template', $data);

The data variables are automagically available to all nested views.

You could take it a step further and create a library that does that logic for you, So it might have a function like this:

Code:
function render($content, $data)

{

    $data['content'] = $content;

    $this->CI->load->view('general/template', $data);

}

// Used as above, but instead of data['content']

// you pass the name of the view

$this->libraryname->render('earth/fauna', $data);

Hope I understood the question correctly Wink

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