CodeIgniter or PHP Equivalent of Rails Partials and Templates

Question

In CodeIgniter, or core PHP; is there an equivalent of Rails\'s view partials and templates?

A partial would let me render another view fragment inside my view. I co

Answer 1

this is essentially what I use:

function render_partial($file, $data = false, $locals = array()) {
    $contents = '';

    foreach($locals AS $key => $value) {
        ${$key} = $value;
    }

    ${$name . '_counter'} = 0;
    foreach($data AS $object) {
        ${$name} = $object;

        ob_start();
        include $file;
        $contents .= ob_get_contents();
        ob_end_clean();

        ${$name . '_counter'}++;
    }

    return $contents;
}

this allows you to call something like:

render_partial('/path/to/person.phtml', array('dennis', 'dee', 'mac', 'charlie'), array('say_hello' => true));

and in /path/to/person.phtml have:

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this is some magic going on though that may help you get a better picture of what's going on. full file: view.class.php