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- A view is a web page that display all the elements of User Interface. View deals with the front-end operations. View display data and capture user action. View send user action to controller. Location of all view files is applications/views.
View could not be called directly. You need to load the view through controller.
How to create view
Create a HTML page and name it firstview.php. Save this file inside applications/views.
Code of the firstview.php file.
<html> <head> <title>CodeIgniter View</title> </head> <body> <h1>Welcome to PHPGurukul Programming Blog</h1> </body> </html>
Load the view
View will be load through controller. Syntax for loading view will be :
$this->load->view('name of the view');
For our case syntax will be :
$this->load->view('firstview');
Load multiple views in Controller
<?php
class Blog extends CI_Controller {
public function index()
{
$this->load->view('header');
$this->load->view('body');
$this->load->view('footer');
}
}
You can also create a new folder inside application/view and save your files in this folder.
Sort views in Subfolders
You can sort views within subfolders:
$this->load->view(‘directory_name/file_name’);
Pass Dynamic Data to view
Data can be transfer from controller to view by using an array or object.
<?php
class Blog extends CI_Controller {
public function index()
{
$data['title'] = "CodeIgniter View";
$data['heading'] = "Welcome to PHPGurukul";
$this->load->view('firstview', $data);
}
}
View will be look like this :
<html> <head> <title><?php echo $title;?></title> </head> <body> <h1><?php echo $heading;?></h1> </body> </html>