CodeIgniter doesn't like methods in views?

Question

I'm playing around with CodeIgniter; hoping to convert some of my old, ugly PHP into a more maintainable framework. However, I've come across a rather frustrating roadblock - I can't seem to define methods in my views. Any time I try I get a completely blank page, and when I look in the debug log the processing seemed to stop after the view was loaded. Can I define methods within views? If not, why, and what workarounds would you suggest?

Note: The method has to do with formatting output strings.

Answer 1

Define your functions in a helper and load them from the controller. That way you can reuse the functions in other views, as well.