Model Tags

Model	Extends	Table	Path
Tags_Model	Plain_Model	tags	/application/models/tags_model.php

Loading the model

$this->load->model('tags_model', 'tags');

Properties

Property	Visibility	Default Value	Description
$sort	Public	name ASC	The default sort direction for reads.

Methods

__construct - Public

Called automatically which in turn calls the parent constructor and sets the model $data_types properties.

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create - Public

Used to create new records in the tags table.

Arguments

Variable	Type	Default	Required	Description
$options	array	array()	Yes	An associative array that contains the column names and the values for the record to be created. Array keys are the column names for each value.
$options['name']	string	N/A/td>	Yes	The tag name.

Example

$this->load->model('tags_model', 'tags');
$tag = $this->tags->create(array('name' => $name));

// If tag was created
if (isset($tag->tag_id)) {
    // Good to go
}

// Some sort of validation error
elseif (isset($tag['errors']) {
    // Validation errors were found
}

// Some sort of database write error, check logs
else {
    // will return false
}

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