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Lee H
Lee H

Reputation: 29

How to load page views like header, sidebar with session data in CodeIgniter?

I have created a view with the name template.php with the following code.

<?php  
    $this->load->view('header');
    $this->load->view($middle);
    $this->load->view('footer');    
 ?>

and in controller i use like

public function index()
    {
    $data['middle'] = 'home';
    $this->load->view('template',$data);
    }

So my question is how to pass session data like $data['session'] = $this->session->all_userdata(); to header. I can pass the session data by loading each view in controller. but how in template file.?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1286

Answers (3)

Mayank Tailor
Mayank Tailor

Reputation: 344

You can use trick like passing array of data from controller and passing inner array again in your template.php view.

public function index()
{
    $data['middle'] = 'home';
    $this->load->view('template',array('data' => $data)); //trick to get whole data array in your template view.
}

then in your template view

<?php  
    $this->load->view('header',$data);
    $this->load->view($middle);
    $this->load->view('footer');    
 ?>

Upvotes: 0

Craig
Craig

Reputation: 1823

Personally, I wouldn't include the header and footer from the view. How I achieve this, is to extend the Controller. Like this;

class MY_Controller extends CI_Controller {

    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function show_view($view, $data = array())
    {
        $this->load->view('header', $data);
        $this->load->view($view, $data);
        $this->load->view('footer', $data);
    }

}

Now, you can load any view, and we pass the $data array to both the header and footer too.

$this->show_view('homepage', $data);

I hope this helps.

Upvotes: 0

BadHorsie
BadHorsie

Reputation: 14544

In any of your views you should be able to use the session helper.

echo $this->session->userdata('foo');

Upvotes: 1

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