CodeIgniter: global variables in a controller

Question

I\'m a very newbie on CodeIgniter, and while I go on I run into problems that, in the procedural coding, were easy to fix

The current issue is: I have this controlle

Answer 1

What you can do is make "class variables" that can be accessed from any method in the controller. In the constructor, you set these values.

class Basic extends Controller {
    // "global" items
    var $data;

    function __construct(){
        parent::__construct(); // needed when adding a constructor to a controller
        $this->data = array(
            'title' => 'Page Title',
            'robots' => 'noindex,nofollow',
            'css' => $this->config->item('css')
        );
        // $this->data can be accessed from anywhere in the controller.
    }    

    function index(){
        $data = $this->data;
        $data['my_data'] = 'Some chunk of text';
        $this->load->view('basic_view', $data);
    }

    function form(){
        $data = $this->data;
        $data['my_other_data'] = 'Another chunk of text';
        $this->load->view('form_view', $data);
    }

}