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09-02-2013, 11:36 AM

[eluser]sessions[/eluser]
I am using a default layout, then nesting the view I need for a particular page. A stripped down simple example:

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>

    &lt;head&gt;

    &lt;/head&gt;

    &lt;body&gt;

        <div id="mainContent" class="pure-u">

                &lt;?php

     $this->load->view($viewToLoad);

    ?&gt;

        </div>

   &lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

Where $viewToLoad will be the name of the nested view to load.

My issue is I have navigation in the default layout that is the same for every page of the site. The nav items are queried from a db.

So I thought since the nav data will be the same for every page on the site, that I should gather the data in CI_Controller...correct?

But right now the issue is calling this: $this->load->model("Model"); from inside CI_Controller doesn't find the model, so I can't get the data.

If this is the correct approach, how do I get data returned to CI_Controller?

Thanks

09-03-2013, 02:44 AM

[eluser]Otemu[/eluser]
Hi,

you could use MY_Controller which would extend CI_Controller, then have all your controllers extend MY_Controller, this way all controllers will now have to your nav data, instead of calling model from every controller just to load the navigation.

Or You could use HMVC - this way you could just drop the navigation as a module

Resources:
Putting useful stuff in MY_Controller
Creating Core System Classes
[email=https://bitbucket.org/wiredesignz/codeigniter-modular-extensions-hmvc ]HMVC[/email]
Keeping it DRY