Question

New to CI so please excuse if this is an offensively straight forward fix.

I have a number of views where I need to be able to include the same piece of navigation like so:

...
<div class="projectNav">
  <?php 
    echo anchor('projects/view/' . $project->intId, '<img src="'.base_url().'assets/img/icons/zoom.png" />'); 
    echo anchor('tasks?project=' . $project->intId . '&status=open', '<img src="'.base_url().'assets/img/icons/puzzle.png" />');
    echo anchor('projects/edit/' . $project->intId, '<img src="'.base_url().'assets/img/icons/edit.png" />');
    echo anchor('projects/charges/' . $project->intId, '<img src="'.base_url().'assets/img/icons/sterling_pound_currency_sign.png" />');
  ?>
</div>
...

Obviously, as it is standard across each of the views, I don’t want to repeat myself. What is the best practice way to do “include” this nav with CI?

Answer 1

$this->load->view('nav');

Will load nav.php in your views folder inside Application. This method can be run from a controller or view.