Need a simple and effective way to add view partials to your CodeIgniter or PHP application? Try this!

contact_view.php

<h2>Contact Us!</h2>
<p>Fill out the form below to contact us.</p>
<?=$Partial->render('_form_contact.php', array('c' => $contact_record))?>

MY_Controller.php

<?php
class MY_Controller extends CI_Controller {
  public function _output() {
    /*
      $use_default_view = FALSE;
      if ($this->content_view !== FALSE && empty($this->content_view)) {
          $this->content_view = $this->router->class . '/' . $this->router->method;
          $use_default_view = TRUE;
      }
      
      $view_file = APPPATH . 'views/' . $this->theme . '/' . $this->content_view . EXT;
      
      if (class_exists('Modules')) {
      
          if ($use_default_view) {
              $module_view = APPPATH . 'modules/' . $this->router->class . '/views/' . $this->theme . '/' . $this->router->method;
      
              if (!method_exists($this->router->class, $this->router->method)) {
                  redirect('page_not_found');
              }
          } else {
              $module_view = APPPATH . 'modules/' . $this->router->class . '/views/' . $this->theme . '/' . $this->content_view;
          }
      
          $module_file = realpath($module_view . EXT);
      
          if (file_exists($module_file)) {
              $view_file = $module_file;
          }
      }
    */
    
    $Partial = new Partial();
    $Partial->data = $this->view_data;
    $Partial->path = dirname($view_file);
    $this->view_data['Partial'] = $Partial;

    /*
      $default_layout = $this->config->item('default_layout', 'app');
      $yield = file_exists($view_file) ? $this->load->view($this->content_view, $this->view_data, TRUE) : FALSE;
  
      if ($this->layout_view)
          echo $this->load->view('layouts/' . $this->layout_view, array('yield' => $yield), TRUE);
      elseif ($default_layout != '')
          echo $this->load->view('layouts/' . $default_layout, array('yield' => $yield), TRUE);
      else
          echo $yield;
  
      echo $output;
    */
  }
}

Partial.php

<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Partial {
  public $data = array();
  public $path = NULL;
  public $var_prefix = '_';

  public function __construct() {
  }

  public function render($file = NULL, $data = array()) {
    $data = array_merge($this->data, $data);
    $partial = realpath($this->path . '/' . $file);

    if(file_exists($partial)) {
      extract($data, EXTR_PREFIX_SAME, $this->var_prefix);
      
      $Partial = $this;
      include($partial);
    }

  }
}