Question

I am new in codeIgniter and I having a bit of trouble with my database and dropdown menu.

Here is my function to get the information I need…

protected $tbl_name = 'club';

public function get($id = 0, $object = TRUE)
    {
        // select * from users where id = 0
        // check if id is provided
        if($id) {
            // id provided - retrieve a specific user
            $query = $this->db->get_where($this->tbl_name, array('id' => $id));
            // check if object type is requested
            if($object) {
                // object is requested
                $data = $query->row();
            }
            else {
                // array is requested
                $data = $query->row_array();
            }
        }
        else {
            // id not provided - retrieve all users
            $query = $this->db->get($this->tbl_name);
            // check if object type is requested
            if($object) {
                // object is requested
                $data = $query->result();
            }
            else {
                // array is requested
                $data = $query->result_array();
            }
        }
        return $data;
    }

Here is where I call it in my controller

$data['clubname'] = $this->club_model->get();

and this is in my view for the dropdown

<tr><td><?php echo form_label('Club Name: ', 'clubname'); ?></td><td><?php echo form_dropdown('clubname', $clubname['name']); ?></td><td><?php echo form_error('clubname'); ?></td></tr>

but I get these errors

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined index: name

Filename: individual/individual_club.php

Line Number: 7
A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()

Filename: helpers/form_helper.php

Line Number: 331

What Am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The problem lies in your form_dropdown('clubname', $clubname['name']) call. The second parameter is wrong. form_dropdown expects an array. See the documentaiton

From your query’s results, you would need to build an array of clubs. Something along the lines of :

// array is requested
$data = array();
foreach ($query->result_array() as $row)
{
   $data[$row['club_id']] = $row['club_name'];
}

Replace club_id and club_name with your table’s column names for the name and id of the clubs. After that, change your form_dropdown to form_dropdown('clubname', $clubname).

Like this, $clubname is an array of clubs.

Hope this helps!