Question

• CodeIgniter 2.1.2

I have a class that contains two methods, for the purpose of this questions showone and view. The latter returns all items of a small database and can also perform a search. The other one is for permalinks like domain.com/showone/firstname-lastname

<?php
class Pages extends CI_Controller {

public function view($page)
    {
    //this includes a mysql search
    }

public function showone($slug)
    {
    //abbreviated version:
    $query = "SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE slug = '" . $slug . "'";
    $result = $this->db->query($query);
    if ($result->num_rows() == 0)
        {
        //here is where I'd like to use the same search that I used in showall
        }
    else
        {
        //show the one item
        }
    }

} //class
?>

So if a user decides to directly enter a URL that doesn’t return anything from the database, I would like to direct him to search results instead of showing a 404.

So how do I set up a function searchdatabase($query) to be used by both showone and view?

Answer 1

You can use your controller functions inside your controller:

public function view($page)
    {
       $this->showone($slug);
    }