Question

I have something like the following code in one of my views:

<?php $this->load->view('_validation_error', array('errors' => $errors, 'field' => 'address_1', 'is_required' => true)); ?>

... some html ...

<?php $this->load->view('_validation_error', array('errors' => $errors, 'field' => 'address_2')); ?>

This allows me to use $errors, $field and $is_required in the partial. This is good, although what’s happening here is that if I don’t supply the ‘is_required’ value on subsequent calls to the partial, it’s getting set to what the last value was (true in this case).

I could just put the value in every time but I was hoping to have it behave like an optional parameter to a function. Is there any functionality in CodeIgniter that allows partials to have their own local variable scope.

Answer 1

Sweet! Never mind, I think I figured out a hack to get around it.

instead of going:

<?php $this->load->view('_validation_error', array('errors' => $errors, 'field' => 'address_1', 'is_required' => true)); ?>

I can go:

<?php $this->load->view('_validation_error', array('data' => array('errors' => $errors, 'field' => 'address_1', 'is_required' => true))); ?>

That way I have access to $data['errors'], $data['field'] and $data['is_required'].

That way any values not passed in are overwritten and by default are optional.

🙂