How to call codeigniter controller function from view

Question

How to call codeigniter controller function from view? When i call the function in a controller, get a 404 page.

Answer 1

Codeigniter is an MVC (Model - View - Controller) framework. It's really not a good idea to call a function from the view. The view should be used just for presentation, and all your logic should be happening before you get to the view in the controllers and models.

A good start for clarifying the best practice is to follow this tutorial:

https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/tutorial/index.html

It's simple, but it really lays out an excellent how-to.

I hope this helps!

Answer 2

class MY_Controller extends CI_Controller {

    public $CI = NULL;

    public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
        $this->CI = & get_instance();
    }

    public function yourMethod() {

    }

}

// in view just call
$this->CI->yourMethod();

Answer 3

Try this one.

Add this code in Your View file

$CI     = & get_instance();
$result = $CI->FindFurnishName($pera);

Add code in Your controller File

public function FindFurnishName($furnish_filter)

{

$FindFurnishName        = $this->index_modal->FindFurnishName($furnish_filter);  
$FindFurnishName_val    = '';
foreach($FindFurnishName as $AllRea)
{
    $FindFurnishName_val  .= ",".$AllRea->name;
}
return ltrim($FindFurnishName_val,',');

}

where

1. FindFurnishName is name of function which is define in Your Controller.
2. $pera is a option ( as your need).

Answer 4

if you need to call a controller from a view, maybe to load a partial view, you thinking as modular programming, and you should implement HMVC structure in lieu of plane MVC. CodeIgniter didnt implement HMVC natively, but you can use this useful library in order to implement HMVC. https://bitbucket.org/wiredesignz/codeigniter-modular-extensions-hmvc

after setup remember:that all your controllers should extends from MX_Controller in order to using this feature.

Answer 5

I would like to answer this question as this comes all times up in searches --

You can call a controller method in view, but please note that this is not a good practice in any MVC including codeigniter.

Your controller may be like below class --

<?php
    class VCI_Controller extends CI_Controller {
    ....
    ....
    function abc($id){
       return $id ;
    }

    }
?>

Now You can call this function in view files as below --
<?php
    $CI =& get_instance();
    $CI->abc($id) ;

?>

Answer 6

You can call a controller function with AJAX on your view. In this case, I'm using the jQuery library to make the call.

<script type="text/javascript">
    $.ajax({
            url: "<?=site_url("controller/function")?>",
            type: "post", // To protect sensitive data
            data: {
               ajax:true,
               variableX: "string",
               variableY: 25
               //and any other variables you want to pass via POST
                   },
            success:function(response){
            // Handle the response object
            }
        });
</script>

This way you can create portions of code (modules) and reload them the AJAX method in a HTML container.