CodeIgniter Grocery CRUD Materialize Theme

Introduction:

Grocery CRUD, a powerful and popular Laravel package for building CRUD interfaces, has recently released Materialize theme support for their CodeIgniter version! This integration allows developers to create beautiful and responsive material design-inspired interfaces for their CRUD operations. In this tutorial, we will walkthrough the step-by-step installation and usage of Grocery CRUD Materialize Theme for CodeIgniter.

CodeIgniter Grocery CRUD Materialize Theme Tutorial:

Step 1: Installation

To start with, make sure you have CodeIgniter installed. If not, you can refer to the official CodeIgniter documentation for installation process.

1. Install grocery CRUD library by running composer require grocerycrud getCodeIgniter
2. Install materialize theme bundle by running composer require grocerycrud/materialize bundle

Step 2: Configuring Grocery CRUD

After installation, locate the application/config/hooks.php file and inside the hooks folder, you will find three files:

• Crodo.php
• Crodo_Model.php
• Crodo_View.php

These PHP files define the GroceryCrud configuration settings. In it, set the theme to: config['grocery_crud']['theme_name'] = 'material'

Step 3: Create a Model:

Next, create your model file. For Example, you can create models folder and inside it put your User_model

class UserModel extends CI_Model {
    public function __construct() {}
}

Step 4: Create Crodo instance:

From your controller, create CRUD instance for your model to use materialize theme-

class Product extends CI_Controller {
      public function index() {

        // Create a CRM instance with materialize-theme
        $crud_config = array(
            'include_css_switch' => False,
            'includeJs_switch' => False 
        );

        $crc = create_crodo('users', 'local', $crud_config)
            ->unset_columns ('id') // UnSet columns that you don not want to display
              ->set_theme('Materialize'); // Set Materialise theme for CRUD
                       // Here you can write your crud operations

 }

}

Step 5: Create Frontend Interface:

At last, create a webpage to load your CRUD module. The code will provide you an interface for this. To load this data, write the following coding in your controller-

$this->load->view('product/index'); // Load the corresponding view here

Now here is a sample code for that view:

• Create views/product/ directory and inside
• Make a fileindex.php with index.php

<?php echo $pagination; // pagination?>
<?php echo form_open(''.$crud_config['controller url'].'/do_search');  

    $crud->button('Add New');
endforeach;?>

<?php

foreach($crud->editable_fields() as $x) :?>
  php echo $x['output'];?
<?php endwhile;?>

<?php echo $crud->bottom_buttons;?>

Final Step: The Output

After all are done you can access interface by following URL:

[your-base-url]/Crodo/User

You then will have a CRUD control panel which is responsive UI and based on Material Desing with all CRUD possibilities.

For more details:

• Official Grocery CRUD Link: https://grepod.com/grocery-crud/
• Official Material Theme Link: [https://materializecss.com]()