Question

I am using CodeIgniter with Smarty. The problem I encountered is when using Form helper. I used the code found here.

So when I open and close the form tag actually using CI native form_open and form_close then after the form submission form_validation->run() is still always false.

<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

class User extends CI_Controller {

public function index()
{
    $this->register();
}

function register()
{
    $data['title'] = 'Register';
    $this->load->library('form_validation');
    //$this->form_validation->set_rules()
    if($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE)
    {
        //the form has not been submitted or there are errors
        $this->parser->parse("register", $data); 
    }
    else
    {
        //validated and submitted
        die();
    }
}

function login()
{
    $data['title'] = 'Login';
    $this->parser->parse("login", $data);
}
}

And the template is

Registration page
{form url='user/register'}

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>Username</td>
        <td><input type="text" name="reg_username" id="reg_username"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Password</td>
        <td><input type="password" name="reg_password" id="reg_password"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>First Name</td>
        <td><input type="text" name="reg_firstname" id="reg_firstname"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Last Name</td>
        <td><input type="text" name="reg_lastname" id="reg_lastname"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td></td>
        <td><input type="submit" value="submitted"/></td>
    </tr>
</table>

{form}

I expect die() command to be executed when the form is submitted by it is not – please advice me what am I doing wrong?

P.S. The method I used to integrate Smarty into CodeIgniter is https://github.com/Vheissu/Ci-Smarty

Answer 1

You must set at least one validation rule in your register() method. For example, something like:

$this->form_validation->set_rules('reg_username', 'Username', 'required');

From the Form_validation class documentation:

Since you haven’t told the Form Validation class to validate anything yet, it returns FALSE (boolean false) by default. The run() function only returns TRUE if it has successfully applied your rules without any of them failing.