Listing all students

Let us continue our work on the Students controller and build an action that would retrieve information about all the students in our students table, present in the controllers/students.php file:

public function get($id=null){
  $this->view->student_data = $this->model->getStudents();
  $this->view->render('students/get');
}

In this snippet, we are creating the get action that retrieves student data. This action can be used to get information about a single student or information about all students.

Note

We are only handling the case about fetching information about all students; once the portal handles other profile information of the student, we can build a view for the student profile.

We are using the getStudents method provided by our Students_model to fetch the data and pass it on to the get.php view in the students subdirectory. Now let us take a quick look at the getStudents method, present in the models/students_model.php file:

public function getStudents...