Pass a parameter to a method using PHP custom MVC - php

Question

Im using a custom MVC in PHP
I have two tables.
Controles and professors
professors table contains an id of course --> id_professor
controles table contains a field called --> id_professors in which I store a list of profs ids this way ==> 1;2;5;9
In my datatable Im retrieving a list of controles from controles table
for the Model, Im using this class
public function fetchControlesListe(){
stmt = $this->db->prepare("SELECT * FROM controles ");
$stmt->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
$stmt->execute();
return $stmt->fetchAll();
}
Controller
liste_controles.php
class Liste_Controles extends Controller {
function __construct(){
parent::__construct();
}
$this->view->fetchCtrlListe= $this->model->fetchControlesListe();
$this->view->render('liste_controles/index');
}
VIEW
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>N°</th>
<th>Module</th>
<th>Salle</th>
<th>Surveillants</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php foreach($this->fetchCtrlListe AS $key=>$value): ?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $controle['id_controle']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $controle['intitule_module']; ?></td> <
<td><?php echo $controle['intitule_salle'];?></td>
<td>
<?php foreach($this->prof as $profs): ?>
HERE, I would like to retrieve the list of profs from professors
table and the field id_profs in professors table stores an
array, as i said before, containing a list of ids (Ex: 1;2;3;4;5)
I would like to loop through that array and retrieve the name of
professor from professors table if the id_professor Exists in that array
. I know I have to create another METHOD but The PROBLEM is i don't know how to pass parameters in the method and call it from the controller to pass it to the view . and the param would be $controle['id_professor']
<?php endforeach; ?>
</td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</tbody>
</table>
The result would be like this:
EDIT:
I know that is not a good idea to store lots of ids as an array, but
my question I just want to know how to do a foreach loop inside
another foreach loop using another method with a paramater that will
be passed from the first loop

Answer 1

There isn't one solution but what you can do is, because you know that id_professors is a string composed of ids separated by commas, you can retrieve an array of identifiers this way :
$ids = explode(",", $profs[id_professors']);
and then
<?php foreach($this->prof as $profs): ?>
<?php $ids = explode(",", $profs['id_professors']); ?>
<?php foreach($ids as $id): ?>
//DO STUFF with $id
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
Notice that the entire thing is not very beautiful because of opening/closing php tags constantly but I hope you'll make a wonderful templates system for your MVC framework :)
From there, it would not be that nice to access the database directly from the view so a better (not perfect) solution would be to provide the view an array made of professors like this one :
$this->view->profs_list = array(
1 => "Prof 1",
2 => "Prof 2",
//etc.
);
with the key of the array being the profs' identifier.
Then you can retrieve their name through the loop :
<?php foreach($this->prof as $profs): ?>
<?php $ids = explode(",", $profs['id_professors']); ?>
<?php foreach($ids as $id): ?>
<span><?php echo $this->profs_list[$id]; ?></span><br />
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>