Question

In CodeIgniter I’m using a base CRUD My_model, but I have this small problem in my browse-controller.. My $data[‘posts’] gets all posts from the table called “posts”. Though the author in that table is just a user_id, which is why I need to use my “getusername” function (gets the username from a ID) to grab the username from the users table.

Though I don’t know how to proceed from here, since it is not just one post. Therefore I need the username to either be a part of the $data[‘posts’] array or some other smart solution.

Anyone who can help me out?

 function index() {
  $this->load->model('browse_model');

  $data['posts'] = $this->browse_model->get_all();
  $data['user'] = $this->browse_model->getusername(XX);

  $this->load->view('header');
  $this->load->view('browse/index', $data);
  $this->load->view('footer');
 }

Answer 1

An alternative way to do the same thing:

function get_all()
{
   $this->db
       ->select('posts.*, u.username')
       ->join('users u', 'u.user_id=posts.user_id');

   return parent::get_all();
}