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   Lee permalink

   Hi Jonathon,

   I really like some of your solutions to making things simpler when using CodeIgniter. On the subject, I was wondering if you had a preference for a simple way to include headers and footers in your views. I know you can either do views within views, but that just doesn’t feel right to me. Although the advantage is only having to use one line to call your views within a controller. The method of building your views within an action by calling each view seperately also doesn’t interest me, because I’m trying to adhere to the DRY principle. I’ve also seen a solution where you create your own MY_controller and build the view that way then inherit from all your other controllers.

   Do you have a recommended way to include your common views that’s simple and doesn’t require you add multiple lines of code to each controller action? I’m trying to keep my view calling to one line within each action of the controller.

   Thanks,

   Lee
2. 
   Jonathon permalink

   Hello Lee,

   My preference on that is simply calling views within views. If there is data that must be passed to the header and footer globally, then I would try something like this:

   class MY_Loader extends CI_Loader {
   
   	function MY_Loader() {
   		parent::CI_Loader();
   	}
   
   	function global_view_data($key, $val) {
   		# normalize the data array
   		$data = (is_array($key))? $key : array($key => $val);
   
   		# merge into the view data array
   		$this->_ci_cached_vars = array_merge($this->_ci_cached_vars, $data);
   	}
   
   }

   Copy that to a file called MY_Loader.php and save it in your libraries folder as described in the user guide. Once that is done you can load data which will be passed to all views globally:

   $this->load->global_view_data($stuff);

   I have found that including views within views is aggravating without a helper function, so I wrote the Modularity plugin to help with that.

   Sorry it took so long to answer, glad you’re enjoying my blog!

   Best wishes,
   Jonathon
3. 
   Jay permalink

   hi,

   I checked your jquery date/time picker post. Do you know if we can show the current and future time and not the past time? for example, If I select Aug 4th as date and assuming the time now is 9am, I want the timer picker to show only the time after 9am and notthing before that as it’s gone. I am trying to use this date/time picker as I am trying to work on a event based site.

   please let me know if you have any idea. I got to know about the date restriction for the date picker from jquery.com site i.e. shows only current and future date and not the past date/year.

   regards
4. 
   Jay permalink

   please email me if you have any idea. thanks!

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