Two almost identical methods but one failing

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Two almost identical methods but one failing - El Forum - 02-12-2011

[eluser]edjon2000[/eluser]
Hello again

I am rewriting my web project to take into account CI Reactor and making a few design improvements on the way, however, I have run into a problem which for the life of me I cannot understand.

I will try to break it down as best as I can:-

Initially I created a method to generate values for a dropdown list and have since extended that to include some other pages on this project, so far, everything has worked out correctly, apart from this one variation( I do a lot of copying and pasting and just change the variables - as you will see shortly - Smile

)

Here is the method that works correctly:-

Code:
// under development

    function create_vacancy_list()

    {

        $vacancies = array();

        $vacancy_values = NULL;

        $vacancy_keys = NULL;

        $this->db->select('name');

        $this->db->distinct();

        $this->db->order_by('name');

        $vacancies = $this->db->get('tbl_vacancies');

        if ($vacancies->num_rows() > 0)

        {

            foreach ($vacancies->result() as $vacancy)

            {

                $vacancy_keys[] = $vacancy->name;

                $vacancy_values[] = $vacancy->name;

            }

            $query = array_combine($vacancy_keys, $vacancy_values);

        }

//        echo '<pre>';

//        print_r($query);

//        echo '</pre>';

//        die('script stopped');

        return $query;

    }

and this is the one that does not work

Code:
// under development

    function create_client_list()

    {

        $clients = array();

        $client_values = NULL;

        $client_keys = NULL;

        $this->db->select('name');

        $this->db->distinct();

        $this->db->order_by('name');

        $clients = $this->db->get('tbl_clients');

        if ($clients->num_rows() > 0)

        {

            foreach ($clients->result() as $client)

            {

                $client_keys[] = $client->name;

                $client_values[] = $client->name;

            }

            $query = array_combine($client_keys, $client_values);

        }

As you can see, they are virtually identical but for some reason the "create_client_list method" does not work.

I could be missing something obvious and I apologise if I have, I have been trying to sort this out for the past four hours so I could be a bit "punch-drunk".

Anyway this is the error I am getting:-

Code:
A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()

Filename: helpers/form_helper.php

Line Number: 324

So any advice about this would be greatly appreciated

Jon

Two almost identical methods but one failing - El Forum - 02-12-2011

[eluser]cahva[/eluser]
Does the former return anything as now it would definately give syntax error or did you just forgot to paste the whole method? Smile

Was it supposed be like this:

Code:
function create_client_list()

{

    $clients = array();

    $client_values = NULL;

    $client_keys = NULL;

    $this->db->select('name');

    $this->db->distinct();

    $this->db->order_by('name');

    $clients = $this->db->get('tbl_clients');

    $query = FALSE;

    if ($clients->num_rows() > 0)

    {

        foreach ($clients->result() as $client)

        {

            $client_keys[] = $client->name;

            $client_values[] = $client->name;

        }

        $query = array_combine($client_keys, $client_values);

    }

    return $query;

}

Two almost identical methods but one failing - El Forum - 02-12-2011

[eluser]edjon2000[/eluser]
Oh! (lots of really bad words you wouldn't want your mother to know that you knew), it was the final return $query statement that was missing)

Thank you cahva Smile

edit ... Actually I never thought about defining the $query variable as FALSE to start with although, it would make for better programming practices, so whilst it is not needed in this instance it is probably a good idea to initialise all variables before they are used, I generally do that with my $data arrays prior to building views, form input statements etc

What do you think ?

Jon