CodeIgniter simple CRUD improved

Marthijn — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:38:56 +0000

Currently I’m developing a web application in PHP using the CodeIgniter framework. Since I needed some admin functionality such as create, read, update and delete records (CRUD) I searched for CodeIgniter libraries. I came across this post by Henri. His solution is very simple and easy to understand and implement. In this post I’ll describe how to improve his solution so it’s possible to sort columns. I start with the files Henri provided in his post.

In order to enable sorting I first modify the get_paged_list function of the PersonModel class:

function get_paged_list($limit = 10, $offset = 0, $order_column = '', $order_type = 'asc'){
	if (empty($order_column) || empty($order_type))
		$this->db->order_by('id','asc');
	else
		$this->db->order_by($order_column, $order_type);
	return $this->db->get($this->tbl_person, $limit, $offset);
}

The index function of the person controller must be modified as well. I changed the following parts:

Function parameters
Get ordering from URI
Call to model
Table header

function index($offset = 0, $order_column = 'id', $order_type = 'asc'){
	// checks
	if (empty($offset)) $offset = 0;
	if (empty($order_column)) $order_column = 'id';
	if (empty($order_type)) $order_type = 'asc';
	//TODO: check for valid column
 
	// load data
	$persons = $this->personModel->get_paged_list($this->limit, $offset, $order_column, $order_type)->result();
 
	// generate pagination
	$this->load->library('pagination');
	$config['base_url'] = site_url('person/index/');
	$config['total_rows'] = $this->personModel->count_all();
	$config['per_page'] = $this->limit;
	$config['uri_segment'] = 3;
	$this->pagination->initialize($config);
	$data['pagination'] = $this->pagination->create_links();
 
	// generate table data
	$this->load->library('table');
	$this->table->set_empty(" ");
	$new_order = ($order_type == 'asc' ? 'desc' : 'asc');
	$this->table->set_heading(
		'No',
		anchor('person/index/'.$offset.'/name/'.$new_order, 'Name'),
		anchor('person/index/'.$offset.'/gender/'.$new_order, 'Gender'),
		anchor('person/index/'.$offset.'/dob/'.$new_order, 'Date of Birth (dd-mm-yyyy)'),
		'Actions'
	);
	$i = 0 + $offset;
	foreach ($persons as $person){
		$this->table->add_row(++$i, $person->name, strtoupper($person->gender)=='M'? 'Male':'Female', date('d-m-Y',strtotime($person->dob)),
			anchor('person/view/'.$person->id,'view',array('class'=>'view')).' '.
			anchor('person/update/'.$person->id,'update',array('class'=>'update')).' '.
			anchor('person/delete/'.$person->id,'delete',array('class'=>'delete','onclick'=>"return confirm('Are you sure want to delete this person?')"))
		);
	}
	$data['table'] = $this->table->generate();
 
	// load view
	$this->load->view('personList', $data);
}

Updated June 29th 2010 thanks to Stephen.

The only problem now is pagination doesn’t work any more. As far as I know there is no solution to pass the ordering parameter to CodeIgniter’s pagination class. I think the best solution is to implement your own pagination class. Maybe I’ll discuss that in another post.

marthijn. » CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter simple CRUD improved