CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpcodeigniter
bryan.blackbee
bryan.blackbee

Reputation: 1954

How is the model method called in CodeIgniter?

I have just inherited a CI project and am trying to figure out some things. One of the problems I'm facing is the following:

Given these 2 links:

/esales/index.php/sales/send_receipt

/esales/index.php/sales/run

I was looking through the CI project and noted this file:

Inside esales/application/models/sale.php, there were 2 functions that were executed, mainly:

class sale_model extends CI_Model{
  public function get_sales_data(){ /* gets sales data */}
  public function send_invoice(){ /* sends order receipt */}

And the idea is that when the user clicks /index.php/sales/run, the function get_sales_data() is run and when /index.php/sales/send_receipt is clicked, send_invoice() is run.

How does CodeIgniter connect the link to the native method in the model? In particular, how does CI know that /sales/ get translated to the sales_model PHP object?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 80

Answers (2)

Abdulla Nilam
Abdulla Nilam

Reputation: 38662

Model and View cannot be access without the command of controller. That's what we called MVC Security.

Your get_sales_data and send_invoice will not called automatcally/independantly unless your controller called it.

Check your controller you have these kind of code. 

class Sales extends CI_Controller {

    public function index() {

    }

    public function run()
    {
        $this->load->model('sale_model'); #load model
        $this->sale_model->get_sales_data(); # access data
    }

    public function send_receipt()
    {
        $this->load->model('sale_model'); # load model
        $this->sale_model->send_invoice(); # access data
    }

}

Upvotes: 0

srikanthi
srikanthi

Reputation: 21

Have you checked the sales.php file in controller..which may contain "send_receipt", "run" methods. probably the model functions are called in those controller..

Upvotes: 2

Related Questions