Codeigniter form elements as table - html

Question

I'm trying to build a form in Codeigniter so that its elements are part of a table and are therefore aligned nicely. Here's the view page:
<div id="login">
<h3>Log in</h3>
<?php
$attributes = array('id'=>'form_login');
echo validation_errors();
echo form_open('login/main', $attributes);
//probably a bad idea to load libraries in views, but what the heck?!
$this->load->library('table');
$this->table->add_row('Username', form_input('username'));
echo $this->table->generate();
//echo 'Username: ';
//echo form_input('username') . '</br>';
echo 'Password: ';
echo form_password('password') . '</br>';
echo form_submit('submit', 'Log in');
?>
<br/><br/>
Forgot Password <br/>
New User? Register
</div>
The two lines commented out is how it was earlier. Now I'm getting the following error: Call to a member function add_row() on a non-object. Why is table a non-object? I've tried loading the library in the controller but the error persists. Please help!

Answer 1

In codeigniter, the global codeigniter object is not available in your views, so you have to get a reference to it.
Try the following
$ci =& get_instance();
Put that at the top, and replace your calls to $this like so:
$ci->load->library('table');
$ci->table->add_row('Username', form_input('username'));
echo $ci->table->generate();