CodeIgniter 1.7

Practical issues of site architecture

Wait a moment, you generated the CSS stylesheet address dynamically in your header_view:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo "$base/$css";?>">

This means that the controller had to produce this data, which is only relevant to how the information is displayed. But we've just said the controller shouldn't know or care about that. Isn't that going right in the face of the "loose coupling" principle, we just set? What's more, generating this information dynamically requires several operations:

1. The controller has to look it up in the config file.
2. The controller has to package it in the $data array and pass it to the view.
3. The view has to extract the single variables $base and $css and look up ...