Question

I’am using a codeigniter 2.x. What i need is to insert a values into an array of config/template.php from inside of a view file /views/home.php.

I’ve created a custom config file application/config/template.php:

$config['site_name'] = "Sitename";
$config['site_lang'] = "En-en";
$config['page_name'] = "Pagename";
$config['css_page'] = "default";
$config['alias'] = "";

$config['head_meta'] = array(
    'description' => 'description',
    'keywords' => 'meta, keywords',
    'stylesheets' => array(
        'template.css'
    ),
    'scripts' => array(
        'jquery.js',
        'template.js'
    ),
    'charset' => 'UTF-8'
);
$config['sidebars'] = array();

Then, i use application/views/template/template.php as my main HTML layout, where at the beginning I include a file application/views/template/includes/inc-tpl-cfg.php which globalize my configurations for a template into an one file with arrays, so i could access them a little bit easier. Here is the content of that inc-tpl-cfg.php:

<?php

// No direct acces to this file
if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

/* Template configuration needs to be defined to make them accessible in the whole template */
$cfg_template = array(
    'sitename'      => $this->config->item('site_name'),
    'sitelang'      => $this->config->item('site_lang'),
    'pagename'      => $this->config->item('page_name'),
    'csspage'       => $this->config->item('css_page'),
    'charset'       => $this->config->item('charset','head_meta'),
    'description'   => $this->config->item('description','head_meta'),
    'keywords'      => $this->config->item('keywords','head_meta'),
    'stylesheets'   => $this->config->item('stylesheets','head_meta'),
    'scripts'       => $this->config->item('scripts','head_meta'),
    'sidebars'      => $this->config->item('sidebars')
);

/* Template variables */
$cfg_assetsUrl = base_url() . 'assets';

// If pagename exists than concatenate it with a sitename, else output only sitename
if(!empty($cfg_template['pagename'])){
    $title = $cfg_template['pagename'] . ' - ' . $cfg_template['sitename'];
}else{
    $title = $cfg_template['sitename'];
}

And one part in my main template layout is block with sidebars:

<div id="tpl-sidebar">
  <?php foreach($cfg_template['sidebars'] as $sidebar):?>
    <?php $this->load->view('modules/'. $sidebar);?>
  <?php endforeach ;?>
</div>

And at last, it loads a application/views/home.php into the specific div block inside applications/views/template/template.php. This is a /views/home.php:

<?php

// No direct acces to this file
if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

// Page configuration
$this->config->set_item('page_name','Homepage');
$this->config->set_item('css_page','home');
$this->config->set_item('alias','home');

?>

    <p>
        WELCOME BLABLABLA
    </p>
</h3>

There is a section where i can define/overwrite a default values from config/template.php and use a specific ones for each views. So my questions is, how can i extend a $config[sidebar] array inside this view file by inserting some new items, for exemple: recent.php,rss.php etc… ?

Sorry for a big code.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Ok, i got it:

this is what i should insert inside of a views/home.php:

$this->config->set_item('sidebars',array(
  'recent',
  'rss'
));

Thanks anyway.