To reduce repeated function calls to these 2 functions: base_url() $this->usermodel->getCurrentUser() I have called them in the header.php file and stored them in 2 variables ($baseurl and $user respectively) that can be used throughout any view in place of calling the functions over and over. I hope that by doing this we can improve the performance of the site a bit (at the very least reduce the server load a bit). These changes will be in my next commit. Chris