I need to call a controller function inside a view -Codeigniter - php

Question

I need to call a function from view to echo a value. I use following code,
Controller (test_controller)
public function displayCategory()
{
$this->load->model('Model_test');
$data['categories'] = $this->Model_test->getCategories();
$this->load->view('test_view', $data);
}
public function display($id)
{
$this->load->model('Model_test');
$name= $this->Model_test->getName($id);
return $name;
}
Model (Model_test)
function getCategories() {
$query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM category");
if ($query->num_rows() > 0) {
return $query->result();
} else {
return NULL;
}
}
function getName($userId) {
$query = $this->db->query("SELECT name FROM user where id = '$userId' ");
if ($query->num_rows() > 0) {
return $query->row()->name;
} else {
return NULL;
}
}
View
<div id="body">
<?php
foreach ($categories as $object) {
$temp = $this->test_controller->display($object->id);
echo $object->title . " ". $object->no . $temp . '<br/>';
}
?>
</div>
but some error when running the code.
error Message: Undefined property: CI_Loader::$test_controller in view

Answer 1

I am not sure if you use CodeIgniter 2 or 3.
Anyway, basically you don't want to use anything inside View files except perhaps helper function(s) or some kind of "presenter" layer (that should be called inside controller I guess).
Solution using Join
Go and read this manual page and search for join. There you can learn about implementation of SQL join directive.
You want to modify this (getCategories()) function so it returns data that you require
function getCategories() {
$this->db->select('category.title, category.no, user.name as username')
->from('category')
->join('user', 'user.id = category.id');
$query = $this->db->get();
if ($query->num_rows() > 0) {
return $query->result();
} else {
return NULL;
}
}
and in view you can get your username like this
foreach ($categories as $object) {
echo $object->title . " ". $object->no . $object->username . '<br/>';
}
I am not 100% sure so please post comments I will edit this answer later.
Solution "breaking rules"
https://stackoverflow.com/a/24320884/1564365
general notes
Also consider naming your tables using plural so categories, users...
Also it is a bad practise to use "category.id as user.id" (storing user id inside category table in "id" field) instead you shold use either a pivot table or in case of 1:1 relation field "user_id".