Is there a way to load inline view snippets from a controller in CodeIgniter?

Question

Let's say I have a controller function with these lines:

$this->load->view('stdHeader_view');
echo "<div class='main'>";
$this->loadView('foo_view');
echo '</div>';
$this->load->view('stdFooter_view');

This won't do what I want, because $this->load->view() doesn't immediately echo the view it loads, so the 2 echoed lines will appear at the top of the file that ultimately gets generated:

<div class='main'></div><html>...

So is there a way to do what I want, essentially "echo" snippets of HTML inline within the controller and have them appear in the same place relative to the views loaded above and below them? Obviously I could accomplish this by making entire view files for <div class='main'> and </div>, but this seems a little silly.

Repox · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-15 21:42:25Z

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Why would you wan't to do that? You should load your variable data into the view and manipulate the view from the data instead.

If this really has to be done, do something like this:

$html = $this->load->view('stdHeader_view', TRUE); //add TRUE to the second parameter, to return the views content
$html .= '<div class="main">';
$html .= $this->load->view('foo_view', TRUE);
$html .= '</div>';
$html .= $this->load->view('stdFooter_view', TRUE);
$this->output->set_output($html); //ends the controller and shows $html as output

answered Jul 15, 2011 at 21:42

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Tom Crockett Over a year ago

I think it's a completely reasonable thing to want to do :) Anyway, your last line indirectly led me to the answer, which is to use $this->output->append_output() in place of echo.

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