CI View is an advanced view library for Codeigniter. It was influenced by ASP.NET MVC. It enhance view for Codeigniter.
It support nested layout, menus, JS/CSS files mamagment, globle string replacing. A full example refer CI View Example
- Download and install Codeigniter
- Download and extract CI View
- Copy View folder into your application libraries folder
- Copy
/View/view-config_example.phpto your application config folder and rename it asview.php - Done!
By default, CI View follow an automatically generate path
[sub-folder]/[controller class name]/[controller method name].php to get first
view file in application's views folder. And all views' files and folders should
be lower case.
An example of folder structure
application
├─ controllers
│ │ Controller1.php
│ └─ sub_folder
│ In_folder_controller.php
├─ views
│ ├─ _shared
│ │ _layout1.php
│ │ ...
│ ├─ controller1
│ │ index.php
│ │ ...
│ └─ sub_folder
│ └─ in_folder_controller
│ index.php
│ ...
I suggest you create a folder named _shared in your application view folder for
sharing resources, such as layout, shared components. And all shared layouts
and components should be named start with "_".
application/controllers/Controller1.php
<?php
class Controller1 extends CI_Controller {
public function index()
{
$this->load->library('view');
$this->view->render();
}
}application/views/controller1/index.php
<?php
$this->set_layout('_shared/_layout1');
?>
<h1>Index view</h1>application/views/_shared/_layout1.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $this->get_title(); ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Layout 1</h1>
<?php $this->place_body(); ?>
</body>
</html>This library config should be placed in /application/config/view.php.
####$config['magic_replace'] = array();
An associative array, replace all occurred keys with values in view output.
####$config['js_debug'] = TRUE;
A config to control if it be switched to minified JS version.
####$config['css_debug'] = TRUE;
A config to control if it be switched to minified CSS version.
####$config['minify_js_ext'] = '.min.js';
A suffix of minified JS file.
####$config['minify_css_ext'] = '.min.css';
A suffix of minified CSS file.
####$config['output_collapse'] = FALSE;
To enable feature, remove all \n and \t in view output.
####$config['title_separator'] = ' - ';
Join all title semgments wiht title separator.
####$config['base_path_symbol'] = '~/';
Replace all occurred symbols in view output with CodeIgniter base url.
Set it to NULL to disable this feature.
CI View is available under the MIT license.