Question

I’m not able to pass a simple variable to the view , can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong ?

I have a controller user :

class Controller_User extends Controller_Template_Login {  

     public function action_index()
    {
        $this->template = 'user/info';
        parent::before(); 
        $user = Auth::instance()->get_user();         
        $this->template->content = View::factory('user/info')
            ->bind('user', $user)
            ->bind('message', $message)
            ->bind('errors', $errors);        

        // if a user is not logged in, redirect to login page
        if (!$user)
        {
            Request::current()->redirect('user/login');
        }
    }

}

Inside my view (user/info) i get that user is not defined .

what I’m missing ?

Edit : Note that this can be fixed by adding the :

$user = Auth::instance()->get_user(); 

to the Controller_Template_Login

        $user = Auth::instance()->get_user();
        $this->template->user = $user;

What i want to know is why this doesn’t work :

    $user = Auth::instance()->get_user();         

    $this->template->content = View::factory('user/info')
    ->bind('user', $user)
    ->bind('message', $message)
    ->bind('errors', $errors); 

Answer 1

Because in the first case

$this->template->user = $user;

you assign $user variable to a user property of $this->template.

And in the second case:

$this->template->content = View::factory('user/info')
    ->bind('user', $user)
    ->bind('message', $message)
    ->bind('errors', $errors); 

you bind $user variable to a user property of $this->template->content.