Question

I’m trying to set profile div box in MY_Controller based on whether the user is logged in or not.

If I can do this in a controller

$data['name']  = $name;

.. then why does this give me “Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array” ?

    if($this->session->userdata('loggedInStatus') == "TRUE"){
        $data['profileDivFirstName'] = $this->session->userdata('first_name');
        $data['profileDivPicture'] = $this->session->userdata('picture');
        $this->load->vars( $data );
    }else{
        $data['profileDivInfoFirstName'] = "Anonymous User";
        $data['profileDivInfoPicture'] = "/assets/css/img/ico-unknown-user.gif";
        $this->load->vars( $data );
    }

Answer 1

You have already instantiated $data which is an object. Since you’re in MY_Controller, it is likely you made it. The code you posted doesn’t show us much, but this:

$data['name']  = $name;

Won’t work if $data is an object because an object expects you to use this format:

$data->name  = $name;

That will (or should, anyway) work, but you should look over your code to make sure you’re not using that in something else, too.