GrfxGuy79

I am building a site using PHP, OOP, and an MVC framework. i am not using laravel, codeignitor, or any other framework, I am building this on my own. I am a newbie to mvc and so I am learning how it all works. I have a dynamic nav menu that populates the categories from the db. The menu/categories will populate and work fine when I view the nav page on its own, but it will not work when it is included in the index view page. What should I do to make the dynamic menu view on all the view pages that i need it to? Below is my code, any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Controller: class Behindthescenes extends Controller { public function __construct() { $this->btsModel = $this->model('mBehindthescene'); } public function index() { $data = [ 'title' => 'Admin Dashboard', ]; $this->view('/behindthescenes/index', $data); } // Get categories for nav menu public function bts_cat_nav() { $catnav = $this->btsModel->getCatsNav(); $data = [ 'catnav' => $catnav, ]; $this->view('/includes/bts_cat_nav', $data); } } Model: class mBehindthescene { private $db; public function __construct() { $this->db = new DBC; } // Get Categories for Admin Navigation public function getCatsNav() { $this->db->query('SELECT * FROM categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC'); $result = $this->db->fetchMultiple(); return $result; } } Index View: require_once APPROOT . '/views/includes/header.php'; require_once APPROOT . '/views/includes/bts_nav.php'; require_once APPROOT . '/views/includes/bts_cat_nav.php'; ?> <div class="container-fluid"> ADMIN DASHBOARD </div> Nav Menu View: <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="cat_nav"> <ul> <?php foreach ($data['catnav'] as $cat): ?> <li class="nav-item"><a href="<?php echo $cat->cat_link; ?> class=" nav-link text-white p-1 mb-1 sidebar-link"><i class="<?php echo $cat->cat_fa; ?> text-light fa-lg mr-3"></i><?php echo $cat->cat_name; ?></a></li> <?php endforeach;?> </ul> </div> </div> </div>