Error When Loading View in My_Controller - php

Question

I have been trying to implement the solution referenced at:
Error when trying to load view in my_controller
Don't know why, but Aptana indicates a syntax error on my line:
parent::load->view('common/header_out');
...which is seconded by the interpreter when I execute: "unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR"
EDIT: Previously I tried using:
$this->load->view('common/header_out');
...which generated the following errors:
Warning: include(application/errors/error_php.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or >directory in /home/uom2/www/system/core/Exceptions.php on line 167
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'application/errors/error_php.php' for inclusion >(include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php5/lib/pear') in /home/uom2/www/system/core/Exceptions.php on >line 167
I am using CI 2.0.
Any help would be appreciated.
application/core/Uom_Controller.php
<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
class Uom_Controller extends CI_Controller
{
public $data = array(); // Array to store data - passed to views.
protected $view_path = null; // Here to overide the view path if n
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
protected function check_session()
{
//Here goes your function
}
protected function render() {
$data['page_title'] = 'Your title';
$data['page_title'] = 'Your title';
parent::load->view('common/header_out');
parent::load->->view('home/home', $data);
parent::load->->view('common/foot');
echo "view rendered: ".date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
}
}
controllers/home/home.php
<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
class Home extends Uom_Controller {
function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
// Set the view path manually for this method.
$this->view_path = 'home/home.php';
}
function __destruct() {
$this->render();
}
public function index()
{
echo "home updated";
}
public function out()
{
echo "logout";
echo "<br>";
echo $this->view_path;
echo "<br>";
}
}
obviously the intention is similiar to the SO post at the top of this post: I want the $this->render(); to be called and render my page header, body, and footer.
(My next task is to add the authentication check to this MY_Controller pattern, so I am hoping that whaever solution works for calling views also works on models.
Thanks everyone and I really have spent hours trying to find a solution to this beforw once again turning to SO.

Answer 1

I think your problem is you are calling parent::load->view instead of $this->load->view

Answer 2

Ugh. here is the problem:
function __destruct() {
$this->render();
}
According to a remark by Phil Surgeon on here
__destruct does not work as expected due to the way everything is
inherited.
...and further down the page, a more detailed explanation that seems to make sense:
The problem is that the controller IS the CI superobject, once you
destroy that, you lose all access to CI. And you don’t have any
control over the destruct process, so you don’t know what is still
accessable, and what isn’t.
Using __destruct() for anything other than cleanup actions for
destruction of the current object is a very bad idea…
The short answer is that things work so long as you are not calling a method from the extended class from "_destruct".
Hopes this helps someone else.