How do i load different views? - php

Question

In my MY_Controller.php, I want to detect user device and the requested domain name. Domain names I am using on same app are: www.seeme.tld and m.seeme.tld, also I am using $this->detect().
So this is what I did:
<?php
if($this->detect->isMobile() || $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] === MOBILE_URL){
$this->config->set_item('base_url', MOBILE_URL);
}elseif(!$this->detect->isMobile() || $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != MOBILE_URL){
$this->config->set_item('base_url', WEBSITE_URL);
}
?>
I have 2 folders in application/views folder : PC(for pc users) and Mobile(for mobile users)
In order to load views, I used this code in my fetch() function:
public function fetch($view, $data = array, $other_vars = false)
{
if(base_url() === MOBILE_URL || $this->_ci->detect->isMobile()){
$f = 'Mobile/';
}elseif(!$this->_ci->detect->isMobile() || base_url() != MOBILE_URL){
$f = 'PC/';
}
return $this->_ci->load->view($f.'contents/'.$view, $data, true);
}
When I use a mobile device or the visit m.seeme.tld with a mobile device, I get mobile contents. But when I visit visit m.seeme.tld with a PC instead of getting mobile contents, I rather get PC contents. Please help me solve this issue!

Answer 1

Changing config array could be problematic sometimes: How to override config's array within a controller in CodeIgniter?. Also you are doing double check (in controller and in the function).
I archieve similar behaviour with doing this way:
YOURCONTROLLER.PHP __construct():
if ($this->detect->isMobile() || $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] === MOBILE_URL){
define('IS_MOBILE', TRUE);
}else{
define('IS_MOBILE', FALSE);
}
then you could use to load the view:
if (IS_MOBILE) {
$view_folder = 'Mobile/';
}else{
$view_folder = 'PC/';
}
$this->load->view($view_folder.$view, $data, TRUE);
Also you could add a single checkpoint to view if the if statment is working fine:
if ($this->detect->isMobile() || $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] === MOBILE_URL){
define('IS_MOBILE', TRUE);
log_message('debug', 'Im mobile browser: '.$this->detect->isMobile().' or the url is mobile:'.$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]);
}else{
define('IS_MOBILE', FALSE);
log_message('debug', 'Im pc');
}
Hope it helps to you.
// This works only replace the '===' with '='.

Answer 2

thanks for the help but i got it fixed. all i did was to first detect mobile users in MY_Controller.php and redirect them to MOBILE_URL then in my fetch() i did:
if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = MOBILE_URL){
$view_folder = 'Mobile/;
}else{ $view_folder = 'Frontend/;
}
and that's it,Paam it started working.