I'm a bit confused on including a controller / view within another controller/view. I'm doing the following and getting funny rendering issues:
//CONTROLLER About
<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
class Pages extends CI_Controller {
public function about(){ //the standalone about page
$data['about_inner'] = $this->about_inner();
$this->load->view('pages/about',$data);
}
public function about_inner(){ //this is separate so it can be loaded by the landing page without the html shell around it
$this->load->model('about_model');
$data['about'] = $this->about_model->get_content();
$this->load->view('pages/about-inner',$data);
}
}
//view about.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container about" data-page="about">
<div class="scroll-container about">
<?=$about_inner; ?>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The issue I'm getting is that $about_inner does not end up loading inside of the "scroll-container" - it loads and renders before everything else, as shown in the screenshot.
What's the best way to get the about_inner view and all of its associated data to load within the about view? I need all the content ($this->about_model->get_content()) to come from about_inner since it can also be loaded by other pages via ajax.
SOLUTION
public function about(){ //the standalone about page
$data['nav'] = $this->load->view('templates/nav', NULL, TRUE);
$data['about_inner'] = $this->about_inner(true);
$this->load->view('pages/about',$data);
}
public function about_inner($print =false){ //this is separate so it can be loaded by the landing page without the html shell around it
$this->load->model('about_model');
$data['about'] = $this->about_model->get_content();
return $this->load->view('pages/about-inner',$data, $print);
}
//HTML
//view about:
<div class="container about" data-page="about">
<?=$nav; ?>
<div class="scroll-container about">
<?=$about_inner; ?>
</div>
</div>
