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04-10-2011, 07:49 AM

[eluser]Svante Hansson[/eluser]
I'm in the process of converting a old sluggish website to using the CI framework. I've currently stripped down the frontpage into 8 views (header, previous article, highlight, adblock and so on) so I can just include them whenever I want to use them (depending on page). I'm trying to figure out the best way of populating those views without having to clutter up the controller with 4~ new modules everytime I load a page. I would like some way of loading the view with some sort of default data that's loaded from the database.

Any ideas?

Kind regards,
Svante

04-10-2011, 08:32 AM

[eluser]oppenheimer[/eluser]
Have you thought about using the third parameter of the $this->load->view to load each block into a variable?

Code:
$page['header'] = $this->load->view('header',$data,true);

$page['adblock'] = $this->load->view('adblock',$data,true);

$page['sidebar'] = $this->load->view('sidebar',$data,true);

You can load $data with any information from the DB that you want that view to display.

Then you need an overall view that pulls it all together and displays it.

Code:
$this->load->view('layout',$page);

In this 'layout' view, you can do the following at the appropriate place:

Code:
&lt;?php

if (isset($header)) echo $header;

if (isset($adblock)) echo $adblock;

if (isset($sidebar)) echo $sidebar;

?&gt;

04-10-2011, 09:54 AM

[eluser]John_Betong_002[/eluser]
In addition to the above I would add the HTML layout Divs and endeavour to not have any HTML script in the "Partial Views":

Code:
<!doctype html>

&lt;head&gt;

  &lt;title&gt;&lt;?php echo $title;?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;

  &lt;?php echo $header;?&gt;

&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;body&gt;

 <div id='container'>

   &lt;?php if ( ONLINE && isset($adblock))  { ?&gt;

     <div id='adblock'>

       &lt;?php echo $adblock;?&gt;

     <div>

   &lt;?php } ?&gt;

  &lt;?php if (isset($sidebar)) { ?&gt;

    <div id='sidebar'>

      &lt;?php echo $sidebar;?&gt;

    <div>

  &lt;?php } ?&gt;

  <div id='dynamic_content'>

     &lt;?php echo $dynamic_content;?&gt;

  </div>

 </div>&lt;?php /* container */ ?&gt;

 <div id='footer'>

  &lt;?php  echo $footer;><

 </div>

&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html>

04-10-2011, 10:05 AM

[eluser]Svante Hansson[/eluser]
An excerpt of the page just do see how bloody much divs to keep track :p Sometimes it's not even impossible not splitting up parts of the same div. It's so nested.

Thanks for the replies so far!

Code:
<div id="page-bg">

    &lt;!--Begin Top Header Bar--&gt;

    <div id="top-bar" class="png">

        <div class="wrapper">

            <div class="links-block">

                &lt;!-- Meny --&gt;

                <ul class="menu">

                    &lt;!-- generated menu here --&gt;

            </div>

            <div id="accessibility"><div id="buttons"></div></div>

            <div class="date-block">

                <span class="date1"></span>

                <span class="date2"></span>

                <span class="date3"></span>

            </div>

        </div>

    </div>

</div>

<div class="wrapper">

<div class="side-shadow-l png">

    <div class="side-shadow-r png">

04-10-2011, 10:46 AM

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]

Code:
$page['header'] = $this->load->view('header');

$page['adblock'] = $this->load->view('adblock');

$page['sidebar'] = $this->load->view('sidebar');  

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

$this->load->view('template');    // or layout!

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