Re: [fw-mvc] controller/view

-- Thomas List <thomaslist@hotmail.com> wrote
(on Wednesday, 08 September 2010, 01:56 PM -0400):
> I'm having trouble writing my array values to my view. In the past, I've used
> objects and $this->view->[object] = $object->fetchAll(), and in my view I've
> just had to do a foreach($this->object as obj), and echo out the values of the
> object. I've also only had to deal with an array value with one rowset in it,
> so I've just had to echo out the values in the array. Now I'm trying to send
> an array with multiple rows to the view, and it's just printing out the last
> value of the array equal to the size of the array. Is there a way to do this
> similar to the object method? For example:
> (in my controller, IndexAction)
> $this->view->houses = $houses->fetchAll();
>
> (in my index.phtml file, or view)
> <?php foreach($this->houses as $house) : ?>
> <tr>
> <td><?php echo $this->escape($house->types);?></td>
> <td><?php echo $this->escape($house->ownership);?></td>
> <td><?php echo $this->escape($house->income);?></td>
> <td><?php echo $this->escape($house->members);?></td>
> </tr>

I'm guessing from your description and the snippent above that one or
more of the values may be array data and/or iterable? such as "types"
and "members"?

As such, you'll need to aggregate those values to build up the final
output. As examples:

* If they are enumerated arrays:
<?php foreach($this->houses as $house) :
$types = implode(', ', $house->types);
$members = implode(', ', $house->members); ?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $this->escape($types);?></td>
<td><?php echo $this->escape($house->ownership);?></td>
<td><?php echo $this->escape($house->income);?></td>
<td><?php echo $this->escape($members);?></td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach ?>

* If they are associative arrays or objects:
<?php foreach($this->houses as $house) :
// Assuming types is enumerative
$types = implode(', ', $house->types);

// Handling members
$members = array();
foreach ($house->members as $member) {
$members[] = $member->firstName . ' ' . $member->lastName;
}
$members = implode(', ', $members); ?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $this->escape($types);?></td>
<td><?php echo $this->escape($house->ownership);?></td>
<td><?php echo $this->escape($house->income);?></td>
<td><?php echo $this->escape($members);?></td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach ?>

You could also pass them to a partial to render:

<?php echo $this->partial('members', $house->members) ?>

and put the logic in your partial.

--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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