CodeIgniter/PHP - Calling a view from within a view
- by Jack W-H
Hi Folks
Basically for my webapp I'm trying to organise it a bit better. As it at the moment, every time I want to load a page, I have to do it from my controller like so:
$this->load->view('subviews/template/headerview');
$this->load->view('subviews/template/menuview');
$this->load->view('The-View-I-Want-To-Load');
$this->load->view('subviews/template/sidebar');
$this->load->view('subviews/template/footerview');
As you can tell it's not really very efficient.
So I thought I'd create one 'master' view - It's called template.php. This is the contents of the template view:
<?php
$view = $data['view'];
$this->load->view('subviews/template/headerview');
$this->load->view('subviews/template/menuview');
$this->load->view($view);
$this->load->view('subviews/template/sidebar');
$this->load->view('subviews/template/footerview');
?>
And then I thought I'd be able to call it from a controller like this:
$data['view'] = 'homecontent';
$this->load->view('template',$data);
Unfortunately I simply cannot make this work. Does anyone have any ways around this or fixes I can put into place? I've tried putting ""s and ''s around $view in template.php but that makes no difference. The usual error is "Undefined variable: data" or "Cannot load view: $view.php" etc.
Thanks folks!
Jack
