Question

I am having trouble, getting the logged in user ID from the database…

This is my controller code :

        function validation(){

    $this->load->model('users_model');
    $query = $this->users_model->validate();

    if ($query){
        $this->users_model->get_userID($this->input->post('email'));
        $data = array( 
        'email' => $this->input->post('email'),
        'is_logged_in' => true,
        'user_id' => $user_id
        );

        $this->session->set_userdata($data);            
        redirect('home');
    }
    else {
        $this->index();
    }
}

This is my model function where I return the user id from the database:

       function get_userID($email){
    $this->db->where('email',$email);
    $query = $this->db->get('users');       
    foreach ($query->result() as $row)
        {
            $user_id = $row->id;
        }
        return $user_id;

}

Everything works perfect, except that $user_id returns empty… What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try:

$user_id= $this->users_model->get_userID($this->input->post('email'));