Question

Adding rows seems to be easy enough, but I want to add columns to my data that have checkboxes so you can “edit” or “delete” that row.

Any CI friendly way to do that?

Answer 1

Manually set your headings and columns inserting whatever you need in your last column like so…

$this->table->set_heading('Heading One', 'Heading Two', ... , 'Links'); //set your headings

foreach($data_rows as $row) { //set your rows here

    // first build links for this row assuming you need the urls to
    // look like 'http://domain/index.php/controller/{action}/{id}
    $links  = anchor('controller/edit/'.$row->id ,'Edit');
    $links .= anchor('controller/delete/'.$row->id , 'Delete');

    $this->table->add_row(
        $row->heading_one,
        $row->heading_two,
        ...,
        $links,   //add the links you created to the last row, corresponding to your 'Links' Header
    );
}

echo $this->table->generate();