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Asked: 2026-05-22T14:23:45+00:00

Hey guys, I am new to CodeIgniter and need some help. I have a

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Hey guys, I am new to CodeIgniter and need some help. I have a controller that formats the content area of a post. The problem is that I also need to create a sidebar that contains dynamic groups, and a right column that contains recent posts. This isn’t hard, the problem I’m running into is that I want the sidebar, and right column on every page, and I don’t want to recode the same bits to get the data in every controller.

What would be the best way to do this without copy/paste?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There are a lot of ways to do this.

    1) Templating: This is my preference for most cases (because my templates are complex), I render my view into a variable using something like:

    $content = $this->load->view('myview', $page_data, true);

    Then I load it into the template parser (fyi you could load it into another view too) like this: 

    $this->load->library('parser');
$data = array(
        'page_title' => 'My Page Title',
        'page_content' => $content,
        'side_bar' => side_bar(), // function which generates your side bar
        'right_col' => right_col() // function which generates your right column
        );
$this->parser->parse('my_template', $data);

    Then your template is like: 

    <html>
<head>
<title>{page_title}</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div>{side_bar}</div>
    <div>{page_content}</div>
    <div>{right_col}</div>
</body>
</html>

    2) Load another view in your view: (assumes you menu is a view not a controller) Something like this: 

    <?php $this->load->view('menu_view'); ?>

    3) PHP Includes: exactly how you would do it in plain PHP (just include a url which points to a controller which returns a menu), Something like this: 

    <?php include("/common/sidebar"); ?>

    Codeigniter will render that page and then include it.

    4) AJAX.. i use this if the content in the “template” content is less important, like banners, suggested related item lists and such.

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