Professional CodeIgniter, Thomas Myer
Chapter 3: A 10,000 - Foot View of CodeIgniter
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function search(){
//use this for the search results
}
function about_us(){
//use this for the about_us page
}
function contact (){
//use this for the contact page
}
function privacy(){
//use this for the privacy page
}
}
As the project progresses, you ' ll spend more and more time in the controller, loading models, using
libraries, and loading views as appropriate.
Before creating your views, you will need to do a bit of work on the
index()
function. Although you
haven ' t created any views, you already have some design considerations in mind:
1.
You need to load the navigation.
2.
You need to load a template and reuse that template as often as possible.
3.
At some point, you ' ll need to consider the use of subtemplates that are included in the master
template.
You can ' t do anything about the third point at the moment, but you can do something about the other
two. Create your
two. Create your
index()
function controller like this:
function index(){
$data[`title'] = "Welcome to Claudia's Kids";
$data[`navlist'] = $this-
>
MCats-
>
getAllCategories();
$this-
>
load-
>
vars($data);
$this-
>
load-
>
view(`template');
}
Here ' s what will happen when you visit the home page of your site:
$data[
'
title']
will be used as
$title
in the template view.
The categories from the database are retrieved into
$data[`navlist']
by the MCats model,
and then passed along to the underlying view.
The footer, header, and navigation subviews don ' t need to be loaded here, as they ' ll be loaded
inside the template.php view.
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