Question

Here is my scenario, I am creating a form with codeigniter, I understand how to populate the fields with models and such. I have the layout of the form. It is now running from my index function. I want to store all the data given to that form and access them in a postdata array with each index being the name of the value. Please help. CodeIgniter, PHP

Answer 1

you create the form

echo form_open('mycontroller/mymethod'); 
// rest of form functions

or  <form name="myform" method="post" action="<?php echo site_url('mycontroler/mymethod');?>" >  // rest of html form

then, in Mycontroller:

   function mymethod()
   {
     $postarray = $this->input->post();

    // you can pass it to a model to do the elaboration , see below
    $this->myloadedmodel->elaborate_form($postarray)
   }   

Model:

  function elaborate_form($postarray)
  {
    foreach($postarray as $field)
    {
      \\ do your stuff
    }
  }

If you want XSS filtering you can pass a TRUE as second parameter in the $this->input->post() call. Check user guide on input library