Main_model

Main_model is core of blogmer.It contains all important functions.It generates post, page, feed in readable format from database.Let's discuss each function one by one.

Beta: This is an Beta model. It can be changed anytime.

Functions:

SinglePostView($id,$full=false,$title="",$checktitle=false)
PageLinks()
SinglePage($URLTitle)
categories($cat,$title,$id)
archives($date,$id)
home($posts)
get_recent_posts($number=10)

$id : represents post id

Main_model Function Reference

$this->Main_model->SinglePostView($id,$full=false,$title="",$checktitle=false)

It takes 4 arguments. Only first one is essential. Rest are optional .It generates an array on the basis of 4 arguments.

We've ||more|| in blog posts so that we can short entry on home page and shows full when required

$id : It can be number based id or URL Tlitle. Last argument decides by default its a numeric id.
$full : its a value to decides how to deal with ||more|| .By default it leave portion of content after ||more||.
$title: URL Title data
$checktitle=If you supply URL Title and not numeric id then set true. By default FALSE.

Array contains:

$blogmer['date']
$blogmer['post_title']
$blogmer['post_status']
$blogmer['content']
$blogmer['categories']
$blogmer['author_name']
$blogmer['title_link']
$blogmer['comment_link]
$blogmer['comment_no']
$blogmer['total_comments']
$blogmer['full']

On Error :if id is not found it sets $blogmer['error'] to TRUE with $blomer['description']

$this->Main_model->PageLinks()

Generate li based list containing pages list with relative links.

Example output

<li><a href="blog path/features">Features</a></li>
<li><a href="blog path/blogmer-contact">Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="blog path/about-speedovation">About Company</a></li>

I dropped <ul> part so that we add more external links without touching database.

See this example for better understanding.

<ul class="some-custom-class">
	<li id="current"><a href="external link">external info</a></li>
	<li><a href="blog path/features">Features</a></li>
	<li><a href="blog path/blogmer-contact">Contact</a></li>
	<li><a href="blog path/about-speedovation">About Company</a></li>
<ul>

This section can be found in theme/currenttheme/main.php

$this->Main_model->SinglePage($URLTitle)

Dt takes single arguments. It generates an array on the basis of $URLTitle.

$URLTitle is url title of page

Array contains:

$blogmer['post_title']
$blogmer['title_link']
$blogmer['content']

On Error :if id is not found it sets $blogmer['error'] to TRUE with $blomer['description']

$this->Main_model->categories($cat)

Generate 2d array.

Contains :

$blogmer[$i]['date']
$blogmer[$i]['post_title']
$blogmer[$i]['post_status']
$blogmer[$i]['content']
$blogmer[$i]['categories']
$blogmer[$i]['author_name']
$blogmer[$i]['title_link']
$blogmer[$i]['comment_link]
$blogmer[$i]['comment_no']
$blogmer[$i]['total_comments']
$blogmer[$i]['full']

Theme function to grab result from this function. It respect ||more|| .

<?php for($i=0;$i<count($allposts)-1;$i++) { $comments=base_url().'blog/post/'.url_title($allposts[$i]['post_title']).'#comments'; ?> <h2><?=$allposts[$i]['title_link'];?></h2> <p class="post-info">Posted by <?=$allposts[$i]['author_name'];?> | Filed under <?=$allposts[$i]['categories'];?> </p> <p><?=$allposts[$i]['content'];?></p> <p class="post-footer"> <a href="<?=$comments?>" class="comments">Comments : <?=$allposts[$i]['comment_no'];?></a> | <span class="date"><?=$allposts[$i]['date'];?></span> </p> <?php } //end of for loop?>

This section can be found in theme/currenttheme/main.php

$this->Main_model->archives($date,$id)

Exaclty above only difference is when we're fetching data from database where condition is changed. For this we compare date basis ouput.

$this->Main_model->home($posts)

Exaclty above only difference is when we're fetching data from database there no condition.

$this->Main_model->get_recent_posts($number=10)

It return data from posts. It uses Active Record get function.This function is used by feed controller.

Final Collection

$this->load->model('Main_model'); $this->Main_model->SinglePostView($id,$full=false,$title="",$checktitle=false); $this->Main_model->PageLinks(); $this->Main_model->SinglePage($URLTitle); $this->Main_model->categories($cat,$title,$id); $this->Main_model->archives($date,$id); $this->Main_model->home($posts); $this->Main_model->get_recent_posts($number=10);

Blogmer beta 2