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09-29-2009, 09:06 AM

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
How do I load common page elements with minimal code?

Currently, to keep my content views clean I only put the contents of my page in views, then have a single head and foot.

This is what my controller would call to pull up the add profile page:

Code:
$this->load->view('head', $data);

$this->load->view('volunteers/add_profile.php');

$this->load->view('foot');

I'm just curious if there is a shortcut anywhere for this, or a better way of doing this.

What I don't want is to make views that actually have page layout information in them other than what is directly required for that particular view.

(meaning I don't want header information in the actual add_profile view, because I might want to use that view somewhere else, or I might want to change the header on all of my pages)

I've thought of doing something like this:

Code:
$data['page']='volunteers/add_profile.php';

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

Then have the content portion pull in the $page.

Thoughts?

09-29-2009, 09:32 AM

[eluser]steelaz[/eluser]
Instead of:

Code:
$data['page']='volunteers/add_profile.php';

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

do this:

Code:
$data['page'] = $this->load->view('volunteers/add_profile', '', TRUE);

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

It will load volunteers/add_profile.php into the string, you can also pass data to it like with all views.

09-29-2009, 09:37 AM

[eluser]n0xie[/eluser]
There are many roads that lead to the same end result. We do it this way:

Code:
// default_template_view.php

&lt;?php $this->load->view('template/_header_view.php'); ?&gt;

      <div id="maincontent">

        &lt;?php echo $content; ?&gt;

    </div>

&lt;?php $this->load->view('template/_footer_view.php'); ?&gt;

// MY_Controller

        private $template = 'default_template_view';

        protected set_template($view) { $this->template = $view }

    protected function render($childdata = NULL)

    {

        if(! empty($childdata))

        {

            $data = array_merge($this->data,$childdata);

        }

        else

        {

            $data = $this->data;

        }

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

    }

// Some Controller that inherits from MY_Controller

    function index()

    {

        $data['content'] = $this->load->view('some_partial_view', $somedata,TRUE);

        $this->render($data);

    }

        function somefunction()

        {

                $data['content'] = $this->load->view('some_other_partial_view', $someotherdata, TRUE);

                $this->set_template('another_template');

                $this->render($data);

        }

09-30-2009, 02:41 AM

[eluser]rafabayona[/eluser]
I do this:

Master template:

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

&lt;html&gt;

    &lt;head&gt;

        &lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;

        &lt;title&gt;&lt;?php echo "$title - "; echo $this->config->item('sitename')?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;

        &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="&lt;?php echo base_url();?&gt;assets/css/default.css"/&gt;

        &lt; script type="text/javascript" src="&lt;?php echo base_url();?&gt;assets/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"&gt;&lt;/ script>

    &lt;/head&gt;

    &lt;body&gt;

        <div id="wrapper">

            <div id="header">

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

            </div>&lt;!--header--&gt;

            <div id="content">

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

            </div>&lt;!--Content--&gt;

            <div id="footer">

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

            </div>&lt;!--footer--&gt;

        </div>&lt;!--Wrapper--&gt;

    &lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

The users/dashboard.php subview

Code:
<h2>Hi, user, welcome</h2>

<ul>Menu

  <li><a href="#">Blah blah</a></li>

  <li><a href="#">Blah blah</a></li>

  <li><a href="#">Blah blah</a></li>

  <li><a href="#">Blah blah</a></li>

</ul>

And loading the view in a controller

Code:
$data['title'] = 'Blah blah blah';

        $data['main'] = 'users/dashboard'; //This is the sub-view I want to load as main content

        $this->load->vars($data);

        $this->load->view('master_template')