CodeIgniter - accessing $config variable in view

Question

Pretty often I need to access $config variables in views. I know I can pass them from controller to load->view(). But it seems excessive to do i

Answer 1

Your controller should collect all the information from databases, configs, etc. There are many good reasons to stick to this. One good reason is that this will allow you to change the source of that information quite easily and not have to make any changes to your views.