Loading view outside view folder with CodeIgniter

Question

I have the need to load a view from outside the scope of:

$this->load->view();

which appears to work from base/application/vie

Answer 1

To customize models and views outside the 'application' folder, follow these easy steps,

Create My_Loader.php file in 'application/core' directory Copy the code into the custom My_Loader.php

class MY_Loader extends CI_Loader {

function mymodel($model, $folder = '',$vars = array(), $return = FALSE) {

    array_push($this->_ci_model_paths, ""); //replace "" with any other directory
    parent::model($model);
}


function myview($folder, $view, $vars = array(), $return = FALSE) {
        $this->_ci_view_paths = array_merge($this->_ci_view_paths, array(APPPATH . '../' . $folder . '/' => TRUE));
        return $this->_ci_load(array(
                '_ci_view' => $view,
                '_ci_vars' => $this->_ci_object_to_array($vars),
                '_ci_return' => $return
        ));
}

Save the file and in the controller, call and load the model (which resides outside the application folder) as,

$this->load->mymodel('folder/model');

and for the view,

$this->load->myview('views','view_dir/view-php-file', $data);