Merge pull request #8 from Dinesh-Ramakrishnan/master

Fontawesome and Response Format

application/controllers/home.php

@@ -2,15 +2,22 @@
 
 class Home extends MY_Controller {
 
-	public function index(){	
+	public function index($renderData=""){	
 
 		/*
 		 *set up title and keywords (if not the default in custom.php config file will be set) 
 		 */
+
+
 		$this->title = "Yaaaaa";
 		$this->keywords = "arny, arnodo";
 
-		$this->_render('pages/home');
+        // 1. when you pass AJAX to renderData it will generate only that particular PAGE skipping other parts like header, nav bar,etc.,
+        //      this can be used for AJAX Responses
+        // 2. when you pass JSON , then the response will be json object of $this->data.  This can be used for JSON Responses to AJAX Calls.
+        // 3. By default full page will be rendered
+
+		$this->_render('pages/home',$renderData);
 	}
 
 }

application/core/MY_Controller.php

@@ -32,7 +32,16 @@ function __construct()
 	}
 
 
-	protected function _render($view) {
+	protected function _render($view,$renderData="FULLPAGE") {
+        switch ($renderData) {
+        case "AJAX"     :
+            $this->load->view($view,$this->data);
+        break;
+        case "JSON"     :
+            echo json_encode($this->data);
+        break;
+        case "FULLPAGE" :
+        default         : 
 		//static
 		$toTpl["javascript"] = $this->javascript;
 		$toTpl["css"] = $this->css;
@@ -63,6 +72,7 @@ protected function _render($view) {
 
 		//render view
 		$this->load->view("template/skeleton",$toTpl);
-
+		 break;
+    }
 	}
 }