Question

I thought it is an easy task to do, but some errors show up as a result of what I did. I wrote two simple pages in the view; 1- header + body 2- footer.
Then I simply added the following code to the controller’s main file:

$this->load->view('footer.php');
$this->load->view('main.php');

And in the main.php (header+body) I added a php line to include the footer like this:

<?php include("footer.php"); ?>

however the error is still showing up…

And the error message is this:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: include(footer.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory

any idea how to resolve this issue?

All comments are appreciated.

Answer 1

The error is probably because the include in your view should be pointing to the footer.php in your views folder, something like /applications/views/footer.php.

However, including views like that is not the correct way to do it. In your controller you can output multiple views sequentially, so this should be all you need:

$this->load->view('main');
$this->load->view('footer');

Notice the lack of an extension, you only need to pass the name of the file. This will load and render the views one after the other.