Professional CodeIgniter, Thomas Myer
Chapter 6: Creating a Dashboard
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There ' s nothing surprising here. You ' re merely calling up a list of categories using
getAllCategories()
and feeding it to a subview called admin_cat_home.
The admin_cat_home subview is also very simple. It loops through the category listing provided by the
controller and prints out an ID, name, status, and a list of actions (edit and delete) for each one. Notice
that this isn ' t anything terribly exciting or even complicated.
<
h1
>
<
?php echo $title;?
>
<
/h1
>
<
p
>
<
?php echo anchor("admin/categories/create", "Create new category");?
>
<
/p
>
<
?php
if ($this-
>
session-
>
flashdata(`message')){
echo "
<
div class='message'
>
".$this-
>
session-
>
flashdata(`message')."
<
/div
>
";
}
if (count($categories)){
echo "
<
table border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='3' width='400'
>
\n";
echo "
<
tr valign='top'
>
\n";
echo "
<
th
>
ID
<
/th
>
\n
<
th
>
Name
<
/th
>
<
th
>
Status
<
/th
>
<
th
>
Actions
<
/th
>
\n";
echo "
<
/tr
>
\n";
foreach ($categories as $key =
>
$list){
echo "
<
tr valign='top'
>
\n";
echo "
<
td
>
".$list[`id']."
<
/td
>
\n";
echo "
<
td
>
".$list[`name']."
<
/td
>
\n";
echo "
<
td align='center'
>
".$list[`status']."
<
/td
>
\n";
echo "
<
td align='center'
>
";
echo anchor(`admin/categories/edit/'.$list[`id'],'edit');
echo " | ";
echo anchor(`admin/categories/delete/'.$list[`id'],'delete');
echo "
<
/td
>
\n";
echo "
<
/tr
>
\n";
}
echo "
<
/table
>
";
}
?
>
At the top of the page there is a link that allows users to create a new category if needed. The use of
flashdata is again in evidence. You ' ll use it very soon to display information from actions taken by
the admin.
Before moving on to create that part of the application, take a look at your new page. It should look like
Figure 6 - 5 .
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