New to CI & Fairly New to PHP. Trying to figure out the best Header/Nav/Content/Footer View Structure.

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hello!

I'm pretty new to CodeIgniter but I must say so far I'm very very impressed with what I've been capable of doing with very little effort. I'm learning CI & PHP mostly by going through Jeffery Way's Nettuts "CodeIgniter from Scratch" series.

Now that I've learned the basic concepts however, I've started working on building an actual site and I have a few questions about how I should structure everything.

Generally I setup an index.php page that is my site's basic structure. It holds all the skeleton HTML code, the linked css files, the meta data and so on and through a PHP include I add the header, the navigation, the content (say... aboutus.php), and the footer. I'll get a URL like http://www.DOMAIN.com/index.php?id=home.

What's the best way to do something like this in CodeIgniter? If my approach is totally not something that you would do with a CI/MVC approach, I'd be happy to hear any suggestions that you may offer me that would get me on the right track.

Thanks everyone for your help!

Michael Wesley Stratton

[eluser]flaky[/eluser]
try using this template library

http://williamsconcepts.com/ci/codeignit.../template/

[eluser]victorche[/eluser]
[quote author="flaky" date="1278951198"]try using this template library

http://williamsconcepts.com/ci/codeignit.../template/[/quote]
There is another simple template library here:

http://maestric.com/doc/php/codeigniter_template

I have no idea which one is better. For sure the first one looks more complex (which does not mean "better" automatically). Maybe someone can compare those two?