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Chapter 7: Improving the Dashboard

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Figure 7-14

Adding Color and Size Checkboxes to Products

Now that the administrative screens for colors and sizes are all in, let ’ s add a set of simple interface

elements to the admin_product_create and admin_product_edit views. As soon as those two changes are

made, you will then need to update the backend processes to keep the products_sizes and products_

colors tables in sync.

First, open the admin/products controller and add two simple calls to the create() function. You want

to call getActiveColors() and getActiveSizes() from their respective models. You can then use the

data from those two calls to create checkboxes for colors and sizes inside the Create form.

function create(){

if ($this- > input- > post(‘name’)){

$this- > MProducts- > addProduct();

$this- > session- > set_flashdata(‘message’,’Product created’);

redirect(‘admin/products/index’,’refresh’);

}else{

$data[‘title’] = “Create Product”;

$data[‘main’] = ‘admin_product_create’;

$data[‘categories’] = $this- > MCats- > getCategoriesDropDown();