CI load properties by default

Question

I use Codeigniter Framework, and I set my program to load header and footer by default when i load the view method. In the header file I have properties like: site name, description etc.. Those proprieties fetch from the DB. Now the problem is that I need to set them every time I call the view method. How can I set them by default correctly?

You can achieve this by creating a MY_Controller that extends CI_Controller, see my answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16171046/data-available-for-all-views-in-codeigniter/16171508#16171508 — Mudshark, Dec 08 '14 at 14:34
You're welcome! Please consider upvoting the original answer I linked to above :-) — Mudshark, Dec 08 '14 at 15:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 08 '14 at 14:43

As someone said above, you should extend the Controller. I do something very simular to this, and this is my code, which is found on "MY_Controller.php" within the ./application/core directory.

public function show_view($view, $data = array())
{
    // Database connection here
    // add anything to the $data array

    $this->load->view('header', $data);
    $this->load->view($view, $data);
    $this->load->view('footer', $data);
}

Now, instead of loading a view from the controller like this;

$this->load->view('view', $data);

I do this;

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

FYI. I call the function "show_view" to avoid name conflicts.

CI load properties by default

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