+- CodeIgniter Forums (https://forum.codeigniter.com)
+-- Forum: Archived Discussions (https://forum.codeigniter.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=20)
+--- Forum: Archived Development & Programming (https://forum.codeigniter.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=23)
+--- Thread: Forum Help (/showthread.php?tid=50687)
Forum Help - El Forum - 04-04-2012
[eluser]mStreet[/eluser]
Hello!
I'm quite new to OOP as well as Codeigniter, so please bare with me.
Currently I'm just fooling around to just try and get a hang of it all. So I'm building a forum at the moment.
I got stuck on the categories, so I searched all over the place hoping to find a solution, which I did (almost). Then I got stuck trying to print it all out.
I got everything ready and the var dump looks like this:
Vardump IMAGE
It looks exactly like it should but I just can't manage to echo it out correctly.
Here's the controller:
Code:
function categories($parent = NULL) {
$items = array();
$this->db->where('parent_id', $parent);
$query = $this->db->get('categories');
$results = $query->result();
foreach($results as $result) {
$child_array = Forum::categories($result->id);
if(sizeof($child_array) == 0) {
array_push($items, $result->name);
} else {
array_push($items, array($result->name, $child_array));
}
}
return $items;
}Thanks!
Forum Help - El Forum - 04-04-2012
[eluser]cbwd[/eluser]
I'd suggest a less complex project for your first attempt at CI/OOP. There's a lot to think about with developing a forum. Might be better to do a few simple CRUD forms to get the hang of things first.
For starters, have a look into how MVC should work, http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/overview/mvc.html
First thing is getting the db interaction out of the controller and into a model.
How do you want the output to look?
What does it look like at the moment?