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10-27-2011, 06:24 AM

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I'm very new to CF and MVC in general, but I have been writing php for about a year.

I was working through a NetTutsPlus tutorial on how to setup a template system and I already hit some road blocks that I have no idea how to solve. I want to use a template because I want to be as efficient as possible. If it helps, here is a link to the tutorial I worked from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvGymDhY49E

1. I don't know how to change the URL structure.
Currently the template system forces me to go to index.php/site/blog for example.

2. I don't know how to pass in dynamic data to my header and footer using this system.

3. What does extends do? Example: "class Site extends CI_Controller"

Here is my current setup...

views/template.php

Code:
&lt;?php

$this->load->view('/includes/header');

$this->load->view($main_content);

$this->load->view('/includes/footer');

?&gt;

controllers/site.php

Code:
&lt;?php

class Site extends CI_Controller{

 function header()

 {

  $this->load->library('common');

  $page_names = $this->common->pages();

  $page = substr(end(explode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])), 0, -4);

  $title = (array_key_exists($page, $page_names) !== false) ? $page_names[$page]: '';

  if (array_key_exists($page, $page_names) !== false)

  {

   $title .= " | Jason Biondo";

  }

  $data['header_content'] = $title;

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

 }

 function about_us()

 {

  $data['main_content'] = 'about_us';

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

 }

 function blog()

 {

  $data['main_content'] = 'blog';

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

 }

}

?&gt;

views/includes/header.php

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

&lt;html lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;

&lt;head&gt;

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

 &lt;meta http-equiv="content-script-type" content="text/javascript" /&gt;

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

&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;body&gt;

 <div id="container">