Question

I am having trouble working with forms created using codeigniter. I have tried number of ways to render a form on the webpage. But am unsuccessful at different points.

I am looking to render this

I tried to render a form with code:

<?php $this -> load -> helper('form');
    $formattr = array('id="form1"'); 
    form_open('registerUsr', $formattr);?>
        <fieldset>
            <legend>Registration Form</legend>
            <p class="first">
                <label for="firstName">First Name: </label>
                <input type="text" id="name" name="firstName" size="20" value="<?php echo set_value('first_name'); ?>" />
            </p>
        </fieldset>
        <p class="submit"><button type="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
<?php echo form_close(); ?>

I tried to create it using codeigniter functions

<?php echo form_open('registerUsr'); 
  echo form_input('$data'); 
  echo form_submit('submit', 'Submit'); 
  echo form_close();?>

I have tried hybrid variety using mix of html tags and helper class functions.

But in all the ways, on final render of the form on web page <form class=“form1”> tags are missing. And also instead of index.php/registerUsr, it is going into index.php/searchUniv page. (I have Checked routes config file. It is correctly pointed)

Any suggestions / ideas appreciated.

TIA 🙂

Update: Here is the controller and routes file

public function registration() {
        $this -> template -> title -> set('Register');
        $this -> template -> _content -> view('register_index', $overwrite = TRUE);
        $this -> template -> _sidebar -> view('gen_sidebar', $overwrite = TRUE);
        $this -> template -> publish();
    }

public function registerUsr(){
        $this -> template -> title -> set('Register');
        $searchItem = $this -> input -> post('form1');
        $this -> template -> publish();
    }
}

register_index.php is the code thats in the question which now looks okay.

$route['searchUniv']="sglobal/searchUniv";
$route['registration']="sglobal/registration";
$route['registerUsr']="sglobal/registerUsr";

template is the custom library i wrote which is working absolutely fine in all other pages. This application is in final stages, so I can say with 95% confidence, template is working okay. Also I am looking at the source of final rendered page and its exactly whats wanted. So, Can we look into any configurations before pointing at template.

Now the final render looks like:

<form action="http://localhost/univapp/index.php/registerUsr" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" id="form1" class="form1">

but on submit its going to http://localhost/univapp/index.php/searchUniv

JUST FYI, I also have another search form on the same page (far away div, different id, different name, different class) which uses POST that points to index.php/searchUniv. Is there any problem because of that?

Answer 1

Try to avoid using Codeigniter helpers if they are not needed, html renders faster than php. All that’s required from the form helper is form_open() as this adds the csrf token.
There also appears to be some typo’s in your code!

Checklist:

application/config/config.php

$config['base_url'] = 'http://www.mysite.com/'; //I suspect this is your problem with routing
$config['csrf_protection'] = TRUE;

application/config/routes.php

$route['register']  = 'controller/get_method'; //form
$route['register/post'] = 'controller/post_method'; //validation

views/registerUsr.php

<?php if( validation_errors() ) : ?>
  <p class=error>Please Correct the Errors below</p>
<?php endif; ?>

<?=form_open('register/post', array('id'=>'', 'class'=>''))?>

<fieldset>
    <legend></legend>
    <label for="firstname">
        <span class=required>*</span>
        First Name
        <small class=helper>Enter your First Name</small>
    </label>
    <input type=text id=firstname name=firstname value="<?=set_value('firstname')?>"/>
    <?=form_error('firstname')?>

    <button type=submit>Submit</button>
</fieldset>

<?=form_close()?>