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Chapter 6: Creating a Dashboard

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echo “ < p > < label for=’parent’ > Category Parent < /label > < br/ > ”;

echo form_dropdown(‘parentid’,$categories,$category[‘parentid’]) .” < /p > ”;

echo form_hidden(‘id’,$category[‘id’]);

echo form_submit(‘submit’,’update category’);

echo form_close()

? >

Your Edit form should look something like Figure 6 - 7.

Figure 6-7

Creating the Category Delete Function

Deleting categories in the administrative tool is very simple: You ’ re not really going to let admins delete

categories, as this could cause all sorts of problems with products that are suddenly orphaned. Instead,

you ’ re only going to allow categories to be inactivated.

Deleting categories and possibly making orphans out of products deserves a richer discussion. Most of

that discussion occurs in Chapter 7 , in which we address possible orphans. For now, the code in this

section will keep you moving down the path to your goal.