php - view table joins in codeigniter -

i have 2 tables category table , factory table. in category table have following rows.

idcategory category 

in factory table have following rows.

idfactories factoryname postcode country telephone number email website profile adress idcategory 

i have table have idfactory , idcategory stored too.

my factorycategories table has following rows.

idfactorycat idfactory idcategory factorycat 

i made join in category model because want categories on site , when click on category factories stored in category has show up.

in model have

$this->db->select('*'); $this->db->from('bedrijfcategorieen'); $this->db->join('bedrijfcategorieen', 'bedrijfcategorieen.idbedrijven = bedrijven.idbedrijven'); $this->db->join('bedrijfcategorieen', 'bedrijfcategorieen.idcategorieen = categorieen.idcategorieen'); $query = $this->db->get(); 

what have store in controller , views? new codeigniter.

ps: translated rows easy understand others because dutch.

thanks

edit: it's bit tricky explain have sidebar catogories.

categories  cars cars parts books etc etc... 

i want create links each category.

when click on, let's cars. want go results page factories showed have category id=1 because cars has id=1. actual question. , think need join that.

hope understand it.

thanks again.

edit match edit

based on edit, i'm giving basic ideas here. please refer codeigniter manual details:

//model

function getresults($segment3){     $this->db->select('*');     $this->db->from('category');     $this->db->join('factories', 'category.idcategory. ' = factories.idfactories');     $this->db->join('factorycategories', 'factorycategories.idfactory = ' . $segment3);       $query = $this->db->get();     return $query->result(); }  //note return results match in tables.  //if need return more of table, use right join or left join.   function categories(){ //call controller create initial links     $query = $this->db->get('category');     return $query->result(); } 

//controller

function pagecategories(){ // shows initial categories links on page     $data["links"] = $this->modelname->categories();     $this->load->view("page-to-view"); }  function pagefactories(){ // takes categories , shows factories     $this->load->helper('url');     $segment3 = $this->uri->segment(3);     $data["results"] = $this->modelname->getresults($segment3);       $this->load->view("page-to-view"); } 

//view

print_r($results); //run test - debug 

show links (note segment pattern):

if(isset($links) && is_array($links)){     foreach($links $k => $value){         echo '<a href="'.base_url().'yourcontroller/pagefactories/'.$value->idcategory.' ">' .$value->category. '</a>';         echo "<br />";     } }  if(isset($results ) && is_array($results )){     foreach($results $key => $row){         echo $row->category;         echo "<br />";         echo $row->factoryname;         //it goes on as want     } } 

this big picture.

how you'd convert dutch can't figure out. note: google.translate.com mess lots of white spaces might have clean up.