Header and footer in CodeIgniter

Yes.

Create a file called template.php in your views folder.

The contents of template.php:

$this->load->view('templates/header');
$this->load->view($v);
$this->load->view('templates/footer');

Then from your controller you can do something like:

$d['v'] = 'body';
$this->load->view('template', $d);

This is actually a very simplistic version of how I personally load all of my views. If you take this idea to the extreme, you can make some interesting modular layouts:

Consider if you create a view called init.php that contains the single line:

$this->load->view('html');

Now create the view html.php with contents:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <? $this->load->view('head'); ?>
    <? $this->load->view('body'); ?>
</html>

Now create a view head.php with contents:

<head>
<title><?= $title;?></title>
<base href="<?= site_url();?>">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href='favicon.ico'>
<script type='text/javascript'>//Put global scripts here...</script>
<!-- ETC ETC... DO A BUNCH OF OTHER <HEAD> STUFF... -->
</head>

And a body.php view with contents:

<body>
    <div id="mainWrap">
        <? $this->load->view('header'); ?>
        <? //FINALLY LOAD THE VIEW!!! ?>
        <? $this->load->view($v); ?>
        <? $this->load->view('footer'); ?>
    </div>
</body>

And create header.php and footer.php views as appropriate.

Now when you call the init from the controller all the heavy lifting is done and your views will be wrapped inside <html> and <body> tags, your headers and footers will be loaded in.

$d['v'] = 'fooview'
$this->load->view('init', $d);

Here's what I do:

<?php

/**
 * /application/core/MY_Loader.php
 *
 */
class MY_Loader extends CI_Loader {
    public function template($template_name, $vars = array(), $return = FALSE)
    {
        $content  = $this->view('templates/header', $vars, $return);
        $content .= $this->view($template_name, $vars, $return);
        $content .= $this->view('templates/footer', $vars, $return);

        if ($return)
        {
            return $content;
        }
    }
}

For CI 3.x:

class MY_Loader extends CI_Loader {
    public function template($template_name, $vars = array(), $return = FALSE)
    {
        if($return):
        $content  = $this->view('templates/header', $vars, $return);
        $content .= $this->view($template_name, $vars, $return);
        $content .= $this->view('templates/footer', $vars, $return);

        return $content;
    else:
        $this->view('templates/header', $vars);
        $this->view($template_name, $vars);
        $this->view('templates/footer', $vars);
    endif;
    }
}

Then, in your controller, this is all you have to do:

<?php
$this->load->template('body');

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