Question

I’m quite new to CodeIgniter and I’m trying to re-use the $data I pass to a view in another function from the same controller.

I have the following code :

class MyClass extends CI_Controller
{
    function func1()
    {
        $this->mdata['first'] = "first";
        $this->mdata['second'] = "second";  
        $this->load->view('my_view', $this->mdata);
    }

    function func2()
    {
        var_dump($this->mdata);
    }
}

The fact is that apparently, I can’t use my variable in the func2()…

Does someone has a trick to do so ?

Thanks.

B

Answer 1

Create a private method _create_mdata() and call it in both methods. There is no way to literally share the data without doing something like this.

// methods starting with an underscore are considered private by CodeIgniter.
// you may want to actually declare it private though. That is better practice
function _create_mdata() 
{
    $this->mdata['first'] = "first";
    $this->mdata['second'] = "second";  
}

function func1()
{
    $this->_create_mdata(); 
    // continue with func1
}