CI: Use view/controller in another included view?

Question

I'm new to CI & PHP.

I have an auth library included, and works great stand-alone.

I simply want to have the login form load as a view inside another view...is that weird?:

I'm quasi-templating:

index:

$this->load->view('head_content');
$this->load->view('stuff');
$this->load->view('footer');

Inside the stuff view:

<stuff></>
$this->load->view('login_view');
<morestuff></>

I just want the login form to show up on the front page, and then tie into the auth system...

Answer 1

You have to load the login view in the controller, and then pass the data to the stuff view.

In the controller:

$this->load->view('head_content');
// the line below will save the output of the login view to $data['login']
// instead of outputting to the screen
$data['login'] = $this->load->view('login_view', '', TRUE);
$this->load->view('stuff');
$this->load->view('footer');

In the stuff view:

<stuff>
<?php echo $login; ?>
<morestuff>

Answer 2

In the page Views, at the bottom, check out the section Returning views as data

Answer 3

I've just recommended this but I'm going to recommend it again:

http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/77279/ Django-like template inheritance helper for CodeIgniter.

I use this on ALL of my CI projects and it makes things like this stupidly easy.