Professional CodeIgniter, Thomas Myer
Chapter 7: Improving the Dashboard
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<
h1
>
<
?php echo $title;?
>
<
/h1
>
<
p
>
<
?php echo anchor("admin/products/create", "Create new product");?
>
<
?php
if ($this-
>
session-
>
flashdata(`message')){
echo "
<
div class='message'
>
".$this-
>
session-
>
flashdata(`message')."
<
/div
>
";
}
if (count($products)){
echo form_open("admin/products/batchmode");
echo "
<
p
>
Category: ". form_dropdown(`category_id',$categories);
echo "
&
nbsp;";
$data = array(`name'=
>
'grouping','size'=
>
'10');
echo "Grouping: ". form_input($data);
echo form_submit("submit","batch update");
echo "
<
/p
>
";
echo "
<
table border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='3' width=
'500'
>
\n";
echo "
<
tr valign='top'
>
\n";
echo "
<
th
>
&
nbsp;
<
/th
>
<
th
>
ID
<
/th
>
\n
<
th
>
Name
<
/th
>
\n
<
th
>
Status
<
/th
>
\n
<
th
>
Actions
<
/th
>
\n";
echo "
<
/tr
>
\n";
foreach ($products as $key =
>
$list){
echo "
<
tr valign='top'
>
\n";
echo "
<
td align='center'
>
".form_checkbox(`p_id[]',$list[`id'],FALSE)."
<
/td
>
";
echo "
<
td
>
".$list[`id']."
<
/td
>
\n";
echo "
<
td
>
".$list[`name']."
<
/td
>
\n";
echo "
<
td align='center'
>
".$list[`status']."
<
/td
>
\n";
echo "
<
td align='center'
>
";
echo anchor(`admin/products/edit/'.$list[`id'],'edit');
echo " | ";
echo anchor(`admin/products/delete/'.$list[`id'],'delete');
echo "
<
/td
>
\n";
echo "
<
/tr
>
\n";
}
echo "
<
/table
>
";
echo form_close();
}
?
>
Essentially, the form at the top of the view will post to a new controller function called
batchmode()
.
The form will pass in an array of product IDs (captured from the
p_id
checkbox array), a category ID
(from the category dropdown), and a grouping label (from the text field).
The important thing here is that each product ID embedded in a checkbox matches the product ID you ' re
dealing with. This is easily handled by simply adding the checkbox as you loop through the
$products
array.
The grouping field is very simple -- just give the user a little bit of space to type in a text string. You ' ll
use that text string (along with a selected
category_id
) to update the products database.
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