Best way to include view within view in Codeigniter template using Dwoo?

Question

I am using Codeigniter 1.7.2 and Phil Sturgeon's wonderful Dwoo wrapper which allows me to use the Dwoo template library in Codeigniter - http://philsturgeon.co.uk/code/codeigniter-dwoo

I have a small question regarding the inclusion of other view template files within my template files. Say for example I have a dashboard.php file and I want to include a header and footer, what is the best way of doing that?

I usually would just do this:

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

And this seems to work, but the whole point of using a template library is to separate code from my html. Can I use Dwoo's include functionality and if so, how?

Answer 1

I don't know about Dwoo, but you should be able to assign the parser's output to a variable and pass that to your view:

$data_array['header'] = $this->parser->parse('header', $header_data, TRUE);

If you don't need to parse your header/footer, just assign the view output to a variable and pass that to your template. The syntax is basically the same:

$data_array['header'] = $this->load->view('header', '', TRUE);

Ref: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/parser.html and http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/views.html

Then, from the looks of it (reading Dwoo's wiki on usage), you'll just add {$header} to your template where you want your header to appear.