How to load a view in CodeIgniter?

• Create and load a view file in CodeIgniter.

  Create a home_view.php file <application/views/> directory.

  Create a User.php file in <application/controllers/> directory.

  Open application/config/routes.php and edit default_controller value to User. eg : $route['default_controller'] = 'User';.

  To display the view on the screen need to load the view from the controller using $this->load->view() method. eg : $this->load->view('home_view').

  application/controllers/User.php

  <?php
  defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
  
  class User extends CI_Controller {
  
    public function __construct() {
  
      parent::__construct();
  
      // load base_url
      $this->load->helper('url');
    }
  
    public function index(){
  
      $data['content'] = "Home Page";
      // load view
      $this->load->view('home_view',$data);
   
    }
  
  }
  

• How do you load a view in CI 4?

  To load view use return view() . return view('view-name',[Array]); 1st parameter is a view file name. 2nd parameter is optional.

• How do I load view in view?

  1. Create header_view. php file in application/views/ directory.
  2. Create footer_view. php file in application/views/ directory.
  3. Create home_view. php file in application/views directory.
  4. Create a User.php file in application/controllers/ directory.

  Use either controller or view to load multiple views and declare them using $this->load->view() method in the order you want to display on the screen.

  application/controllers/User.php

  class User extends CI_Controller {
  
    public function __construct() {
  
      parent::__construct();
  
      // load base_url
      $this->load->helper('url');
    }
  
    public function index(){
  
      $data['content'] = "Home Page";
      // load view
      $this->load->view('header_view');
      $this->load->view('home_view',$data);
      $this->load->view('footer_view');
  

• Where are views in CodeIgniter?

  View files are created and managed in application/views directory. Create a home_view. php file application/views/ directory and create a simple HTML form.

• How pass data from one view page to another view in CodeIgniter?

  1. Create a View.
  2. Load the View.
  3. Pass array from the controller to view.
  4. Load Multiple Views.
  5. Sort Views in Subfolders.
  6. Add Dynamic Data to Views.
  7. Create the Loops.
  8. Returning View as Data.

• How can we pass data from view to view?

  Using view(): We can directly pass the data in the 'view()' helper function by using the second parameter in the function which takes an array as key and value pair. Note: Comment or delete any previous route in the 'web

• Can we store data in view?

  View files in codeigniter is used to display the data. Here you can display data which you get through the controller.

• How pass data from view to controller in CodeIgniter?

  View. Created a <form method='post'> which contains the input text field and submit button.

  Controller. In a view file we can use $this->input->post() method to get the value which returns an Associative array of submitted values.

  For eg, You can access the value of input field using name attribute (<input type="text" name="username">) like : $username = $this->input->post('username'); in codeigniter controller.

• What is $this in CodeIgniter?

  $this actually represents the singleton Codeigniter instance (which is actually the controller object). For example when you load libraries/models, you're attaching them to this instance so you can reference them as a property of this instance.

• What is $data in CodeIgniter?

  $data should be an array or an object: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/views.html. $data = array( 'title' => 'My Title', 'heading' => 'My Heading', 'message' => 'My Message' ); $this->load->view('results_view', $data); results_view.php

• How can you load a view in CodeIgniter?

  To load a particular view file you will use the following method: $this->load->view('name'); Where name is the name of your view file.

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