I have the following db and php. I am trying to make a unordered list of category menu.
The original php is working by itself.
I am trying to convert this to MVC in codeigniter and the following is what I got so far and not working.
If someone can point out what I am doing wrong, I will appreciate it.
Database
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `categories` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`shortdesc` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`longdesc` text NOT NULL,
`status` enum('active','inactive') NOT NULL,
`parentid` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=10 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=10 ;
--
-- Dumping data for table `categories`
--
INSERT INTO `categories` (`id`, `name`, `shortdesc`, `longdesc`, `status`, `parentid`) VALUES (1, 'shoes', 'Shoes for boys and girls.', '', 'active', 7);
INSERT INTO `categories` (`id`, `name`, `shortdesc`, `longdesc`, `status`, `parentid`) VALUES (2, 'shirts', 'Shirts and blouses!', '', 'active', 7);
...
...
menu.php (original php and working)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>View Tasks</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Menu</h3>
<?php
function make_list ($parent) {
global $data;
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($parent as $task_id => $todo) {
echo "<li>$todo";
if (isset($data[$task_id])) {
make_list($data[$task_id]);
}
echo '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
}
$dbc = @mysqli_connect ('localhost', 'root1', 'root', 'ci_day6') OR die ('<p>Could not connect to the database!</p></body></html>');
$q = 'SELECT id, parentid, name FROM categories ORDER BY parentid ASC';
$r = mysqli_query($dbc, $q);
$data = array();
while (list($id, $parentid, $name) = mysqli_fetch_array($r, MYSQLI_NUM)) {
$data[$parentid][$id] = $name;
}
make_list($data[0]);
?>
</body>
</html>
This php output the following html
Menu
* clothes
o shoes
o shirts
o pants
o dresses
* fun
o toys
o games
My MVC so far and not working.
cat_menu_model.php(model)
<?php
class Cat_menu_model extends Model
{
function Cat_menu_model()
{
parent::Model();
}
function get_categories_nav()
{
$data = array();
$this->db->select('id,name,parentid');
$this->db->where('status', 'active');
$this->db->orderby('parentid','asc');
$this->db->orderby('name','asc');
$Q = $this->db->get('categories');
if ($Q -> num_rows() > 0){
foreach ($Q -> result_array() as $row){
$data[$row['parentid']][$row['id']] = $row['name'];
}
}
$Q->free_result();
return $data;
}
}
cat_menu.php (controller)
<?php
class Cat_menu extends Controller
{
function Cat_menu()
{
parent::Controller();
}
function make_menu($parent)
{
$this->load->model('cat_menu_model');
$data['navlist'] = $this->cat_menu_model->get_categories_nav();
$this -> load ->view('menu');
}
}
menu.php(view)
<?php
if (count($navlist))
{
$this->make_menu($data[0]);
echo '<ol>';
foreach ($parent as $id => $catname) {
echo "<li>$catname";
if (isset($data[$id])) {
make_menu($data[$id]);
}
echo '</li>';
}
echo '</ol>';
}
?>
It shows an error messages.
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: Missing argument 1 for Cat_menu::make_menu()
Filename: controllers/cat_menu.php
Line Number: 10
Given the PHP error message above, it’s saying that you’ve told the method Cat_menu::make_menu() to accept an argument. In this case the function make_menu($parent) in the Cat_menu controller.
If this function does not require any input — doesn’t look like $parent is used — then just remove the $parent argument from make_menu.
Alternatively, set a default value if you would like the function to accept no arguments. See below:
cat_menu.php (Controller)
Assuming the rest of your code is correct, this should now work. Please see the CodeIgniter User Guide for reference from now on. Specifically the views documentation on parsing values across.
OP* has since responded in the comments below, this is my response.
**OP = Original Poster*
When running print_r($navlist) in the view. The OP gets the following output:
However, it is worth noting that the OP’s CI model ActiveRecord query is significantly different than the original — non MVC — query:
vs.
The CI model query is different than the original SQL to begin with. When converted into SQL it would produce the following:
However, it seems that this is the correct data being brought back so I’ll continue on.
The OP would like the array formatted like a heirarchy. For future reference, please see: PHP/MySQL – building a nav menu hierarchy. The easiest way to do this, would be to follow the OP’s original (non MVC) function and add it as a model function. This model function would create a nested array, rather than the direct html output — the reason for this is to separate application logic from output.
You can add the following to your model as a function. Originally taken from Nested sets, php array and transformation but since re-written due to errors appearing for OP:
Now we can update our controller to be the following:
cat_menu.php (Controller)
Now we can update our view to be the following:
menu.php (View)
Disclaimer: None of the above has been tested using PHP as I currently don’t have access to the interpreter from this computer. Please make sure you check over any syntax.