Question

i just created my own library on this folder (application/library) and following all steps to create individual library,

once i load this library in my controller it execute the function, but when trying to pass it to the view, nothing return

here is my code

MY OWN FUNCTION

<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

    class Common {

            public function date_arabic()
            {
            $daysarabic=array('الأحد','الاثنين','الثلاثاء'
            ,'الأربعاء','الخميس','الجمعة','السبت');
            $monarabic=array('','يناير','فبراير','مارس',
            'أبريل','مايو','يونيو','يوليو'
            ,'أغسطس','سبتمبر','أكتوبر','نوفمبر','ديسمبر');
            $date=getdate(time());
            echo $daysarabic[$date['wday']].' '.$date['mday'].' '.$monarabic[$date['mon']].' '.$date['year']/*.' الوقت الأن '.$date['hours'].':'.$date['minutes'].':'.$date['seconds']*/;
            }       

    }

MY Controller

    //arabic date
    $this->load->library('Common');
    $this->common->date_arabic();

here it prints out the data in my own function, i tried to store this in a $data to pass it to the view like that

    //arabic date
    $this->load->library('Common');
    $data['date_arabic'] = $this->common->date_arabic();
    ...

    $this->load->view('home_page.php', $data);

then when going to view i just type

<?php echo $date_arabic ; ?>

but nothing returned

Answer 1

In your function, change the last line from this:

echo $daysarabic[$date['wday']].' '.$date['mday'].' '.$monarabic[$date['mon']].' '.$date['year']/*.' الوقت الأن '.$date['hours'].':'.$date['minutes'].':'.$date['seconds']*/;

to this:

return $daysarabic[$date['wday']].' '.$date['mday'].' '.$monarabic[$date['mon']].' '.$date['year']/*.' الوقت الأن '.$date['hours'].':'.$date['minutes'].':'.$date['seconds']*/;