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12-04-2008, 12:54 PM

[eluser]matches[/eluser]
Sorry for the basic question.

How can I get the following controllers view to show in the productSearch view at the bottom of this post. Currently it just shows the productResults but not embedded in the productSearch view.

Thanks for the help.

ProductResults Controller

Code:
&lt;?php

 class ProductResults extends Controller 

 {

     function ProductResults() 

     {

         parent::Controller();

         $this->load->helper('url');

         $this->load->helper('form');

     }

     public function showProducts()

     {

         $searchText = $_REQUEST['searchText'];

         $products = array();

         $oXML = simplexml_load_file('http://sandbox.api.shopping.com/publisher/3.0/rest/GeneralSearch?apiKey=authorized-key&trackingId=7000610&keyword;=' . $searchText);

        foreach ($oXML->categories->category->items->product as $oProduct)

        {

            echo "<img >images->image->sourceURL . "' />";

            echo '<h2>' . $oProduct->name . '</h2>';

            echo '<p>' . $oProduct->fullDescription . '</p>';

            echo sprintf('<a href="%s" title="%s">%s</a>',

                $oProduct->productOffersURL,

                $oProduct->name,

                'More information'

            );

        }

     }

 }

?&gt;

ProductSearch Controller

Code:
&lt;?php

 class ProductSearch extends Controller 

 {

     function ProductSearch() 

     {

         parent::Controller();

         $this->load->helper('url');

         $this->load->helper('form');

     }

     function index()

     {

         $this->load->view('productSearch/index');

     }

 }

?&gt;

Product Search View

Code:
&lt;html&gt;

    &lt;head&gt;

    &lt;/head&gt;

    &lt;body&gt;

        &lt;?=form_open('ProductResults/showProducts');?&gt;

            &lt;input type="text" name="searchText" /&gt;

            &lt;input type="submit" name="submit" /&gt;

        &lt;/form&gt;

        &lt;?php $this->load->view('productResults/index'); ?&gt;

    &lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

12-04-2008, 04:00 PM

[eluser]matches[/eluser]
OK, I was able to get it working like below. I have my showProducts function in my index function. But that can't be right, it looks awful.

Thanks again for any help.

Controller

Code:
&lt;?php

/*

 * Created on Dec 3, 2008

 *

 * To change the template for this generated file go to

 * Window - Preferences - PHPeclipse - PHP - Code Templates

 */

 class ProductSearch extends Controller 

 {

     function ProductSearch() 

     {

         parent::Controller();

         $this->load->helper('url');

         $this->load->helper('form');

     }

     function index()

     {

         function showProducts()

         {

             $searchText = $_REQUEST['searchText'];

             $products = array();

             $counter = 0;

             $oXML = simplexml_load_file('http://publisher.api.shopping.com/publisher/3.0/rest/GeneralSearch?apiKey=d033326f-fe2a-410b-87e3-e213ff3f462e&trackingId=7001224&keyword;=' . $searchText);

            foreach ($oXML->categories->category->items->product as $oProduct)

            {

                $counter++;

                /*echo "<img >images->image->sourceURL . "' />";

                echo '<h2>' . $oProduct->name . '</h2>';

                echo '<p>' . $oProduct->fullDescription . '</p>';

                echo sprintf('<a href="%s" title="%s">%s</a>',

                    $oProduct->productOffersURL,

                    $oProduct->name,

                    'More information'

                );*/

                $products[$counter] = "<img >images->image->sourceURL . "' />" .

                '<h2>' . $oProduct->name . '</h2>' .

                '<p>' . $oProduct->fullDescription . '</p>';    

            }

            return $products;

         }

         $searchText = $_REQUEST['searchText'];

         if ($searchText)

         {

             $data['products'] = showProducts($searchText);

             $this->load->view('productSearch/index', $data);

         }

         else

         {

             $this->load->view('productSearch/index');

         }

     }     

 }

?&gt;

View

Code:
&lt;html&gt;

    &lt;head&gt;

    &lt;/head&gt;

    &lt;body&gt;

        &lt;?=form_open('ProductSearch/index');?&gt;

            &lt;input type="text" name="searchText" /&gt;

            &lt;input type="submit" name="submit" /&gt;

        &lt;/form&gt;

        &lt;?php foreach($products as $product): ?&gt;

        &lt;?= $product ?&gt;

        &lt;?php endforeach; ?&gt;

    &lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

12-05-2008, 03:53 AM

[eluser]sl3dg3hamm3r[/eluser]
IMHO you shouldn't produce any html-tags at all in your controller (img, h2, p). I would remove it completely.

12-05-2008, 12:34 PM

[eluser]matches[/eluser]
I guess I'm sure how to avoid that.

Any advise on how to get that function out of the index function?