Data not displaying in View from controller codelgniter - php

Question

I am learning CodeIgniter; in my program I am trying to populate a dropdown from mysql database but I seemed to be doing something wrong.
Please find below what I tried:
Model
In my model I tried to use different select methods I found online but all failed so I stick with the below method and still failed.
function getAllVendors()
{
$this->db->select('DISTINCT SUBSTRING(product_code,1,3) as vendor')
->order_by('vendor');
$q = $this->db->get('tec_sale_items');
if ($q->num_rows() > 0) {
foreach (($q->result()) as $row) {
$data[] = $row;
}
return $data;
}
return false;
}
Controller
public function allVendors(){
$this->data['vendors'] = $this->vendors_sales_model->getAllVendors();
$this->page_construct('reports/vendors_sales_details', $this->data);
}
View
<select class="form-control">
<option value="">All</option>
<?php
foreach($vendors as $ven)
{
echo '<option value="'.$ven['vendor'].'">'.$ven['vendor'].'</option>';
}
?>
</select>
Could someone please point me to what I am doing wrong.

Answer 1

As I see you might be forget to call view into your controller. Load view in the controller $this->load->view("your view file name") and pass the data you got from your database.
First make sure that you are getting proper data from model. And as I see your are using current object of class $this->data['vendors'] so you have to use same in the code
<select class="form-control">
<option value="">All</option> <?php
foreach($this->data['vendors'] as $ven)
{
echo '<option value="'.$ven['vendor'].'">'.$ven['vendor'].'</option>';
}
?>
</select>
May be it's helpful 🙂.
And you should use ci4 it's 3rd version of ci and it's no longer maintained. For better security and performance change php server 7.4 and above.