Code igniter Themes' library. - php

Question

I need 3 different templates for my Codeigniter application. I had read about Themes' library. But still I didn't get any idea about how to add a template to Codeignier ..
I got about how to involke template in Controller .
Please help

Answer 1

I'm using this template library, is really simple and works well for me.
application/libraries/Template.php
<?php
class Template {
var $template_data = array();
var $use_template = '';
/**
* Set variable for using in the template
*/
function set($name, $value)
{
$this->template_data[$name] = $value;
}
/**
* Set template name
*/
function set_template($name)
{
$this->use_template = $name;
}
/**
* Load view
*/
function load($view = '' , $view_data = array(), $template = '', $return = FALSE)
{
$this->CI =& get_instance();
if (empty($template)) {
$template = $this->CI->config->item('template_master');
}
if (!empty($this->use_template)) {
$template = $this->use_template;
}
$this->set($this->CI->config->item('data_container'), $this->CI->load->view($view, array_merge($view_data, array ('template' => $this->template_data)), true));
return $this->CI->load->view($this->CI->config->item('template_folder') . '/' . $template, $this->template_data, $return);
}
}
application/config/template.php
<?php
$config['template_master'] = 'main';
$config['template_folder'] = 'templates';
$config['data_container'] = 'content';
application/views/templates/main.php
Header<br />
<?php echo $content; ?></br>
Footer
application/controllers/welcome.php
<?php
class Welcome extends CI_Controller
{
public function index()
{
$this->load->config('template');
$this->load->library('template');
$this->template->load('welcome', array('view' => 'data'));
}
}
I usually put the config/library files on autoload, and you can use anytime $this->template->set_template('other_template'); to use another one :)
Hope it helps.

Answer 2

I've used the following setup in a CodeIgniter project:
The different templates along with stylesheets and images are in the following folder:
/templates/1/header.php
/templates/1/footer.php
/templates/1/images/*
/templates/1/style/*
/templates/2/header.php
/templates/2/footer.php
/templates/2/images/*
/templates/2/style/*
In your Controllers determine which template you want to load and pass the path to that template as a variable ( templatepath in this case ) to your View files. Inside the view files you do the following:
<?php include($templatepath.'/header.php'); ?>
at the top and
<?php include($templatepath.'/footer.php'); ?>
at the bottom.