I have a controller with a method that looks something like this:
public function browsecategory($category_id)
{
//find any subcategories for this category
$this->load->model('category/category_model');
$this->load->model('category/product_category_model');
$records['categories'] = $this->category_model->find_all_by('parent_id', $category_id);
//add some product data too.
$records['products'] = $this->product_category_model->find_all_by('category_id', $category_id);
Template::set('records', $records);
Template::render();
}//end browsecategory
All the examples I've seen for the codeigniter pagination "stuff" is using one query. I need to combine two data sets and serve on one view.
Any suggestions?
EDIT 1
I've tried to follow MDeSilva's suggestion below. And although the pagination object is correctly calculating the number of links to create, all items appear on all pages.
Here's the code in the model that gets the data:
public function get_categories_and_products($limit=12, $offset=0, $category_id=null)
{
print '<BR>the function got the following offeset:'.$offset;
$query = "(SELECT cat.category_id, cat.title, cat.image_thumb, cat.deleted, cat.display_weight ";
$query = $query."FROM bf_categories cat ";
$query = $query."WHERE cat.parent_id=".$category_id;
$query = $query." AND cat.category_id <>".$category_id;
$query = $query.") UNION (";
$query = $query."SELECT p.product_id, p.name, p.image_thumb, p.deleted , p.display_weight";
$query = $query." FROM bf_product p ";
$query = $query."Inner join bf_product_category cp ";
$query = $query."on p.product_id=cp.product_id ";
$query = $query."Where cp.category_id=".$category_id.")";
$this->db->limit($limit, $offset);
$catsandprods= $this->db->query($query);
return $catsandprods->result() ;
}
And here's the code in the controller:
public function browsecategory($category_id, $offset=0)
{
$this->load->library('pagination');
$total = $this->product_model->get_cats_prods_count($category_id);
$config['base_url'] = site_url('/product/browsecategory/'.$category_id);
$config['uri_segment'] = 4;
$config['total_rows'] = $total;
$config['per_page'] = 5;
$config['num_links'] = 10;
$this->pagination->initialize($config);
$offset = ($this->uri->segment($config['uri_segment'])) ? $this->uri->segment($config['uri_segment']) : 0;
print $offset;
//Call the model function here to get the result,
$records= $this->product_model->get_categories_and_products(5,$offset,$category_id);
//add to breadcrumb trail
$this->build_bread_crumb_trail($category_id);
$breadcrumbs = $this->breadcrumbs->expand_to_hyperlinks();
Template::set('currentcategory',$category_id);
Template::set('breadcrumbs', $breadcrumbs);
Template::set('records', $records);
Template::render();
}
I've debugged and I can see that the line of code "$this->db->limit($limit, $offset);" in the model is not working. It always returns the full record set... Can you tell me what I'm missing? Thanks.