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10-11-2010, 03:11 PM

[eluser]Met[/eluser]
hola

Must be missing something.

I quote the reference (http://www.williamsconcepts.com/ci/codei...rence.html )

Quote:"My template uses other variables that aren't necessarily regions. How do I supply those within Template?"

You most likely will use variables in your main template that aren't content regions. For example, you might have a $body_id variable that you apply to the <body> element that you use in your CSS to apply styles to specific pages. This certainly could be a region, but it wouldn't quite fit the metaphor.

To supply these variables to your master template, use CodeIgniter's $this->load->vars() mechanism.

my code:

Code:
&lt;?php

class Site extends Controller {

    function __construct()

    {

        parent::__construct();

        $this->load->library('template');     

    }

    function index()

    {

        $this->template->write('title', 'My title');

        $data['active']='home'; 

        // i want to pass the template $active so the appropriate navigation link gets the "active" class appended to it.

// now i guess I'm missing something:

        $this->load->vars($data);

        $this->template->write_view('content', 'home/index');

        $this->template->render();

    }

// my master template looks like (code highlighting is broked, its not a parse error)

&lt;body&gt;

<ul id="nav">

<li class="home &lt;?php if($active=='home') echo 'active';?&gt;">

&lt;?=anchor(base_url(), 'Home');?&gt;

</li>

</ul>

&lt;!-- etc --&gt;

makes sense to me, but i'm clearly missing something. $active doesn't appear to be being set.

thanks !

10-11-2010, 04:27 PM

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
That only works when you don't use a parser.

In that case, the template library calls $this->load->view() to load the template, and that supports $this->load->vars(). From a quick glance at the code, the Parser library doesn't.
For third party parsers, you could build it in. For example in case of Smarty, you could assign the content of $this->load->_ci_cached_vars using Smarty's assign method.

10-12-2010, 02:53 AM

[eluser]Ephyzy[/eluser]
Hi Met. I just found Williams Concepts Template 15 minutes ago, and I think it's awesome. Your code below

Code:
$this->load->vars($data);       

$this->template->write_view('content', 'home/index');

should rather read

Code:
$this->template->write_view('content', 'home/index', $data);

and everything will be fine.

Cheers!