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

You can setup a class property named data and then set it's default values into the contructor which is the first thing which is run when a new instance on Basic is created. Then you can reference to it with the $this keyword

class Basic extends Controller
{
   var $data = array();

   public function __construct()
   {
       parent::__construct();
       // load config file if not autoloaded
       $this->data['title'] = 'Page Title';
       $this->data['robots'] = 'noindex,nofollow';
       $this->data['css'] = $this->config->item('css');
   }

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

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