Question

I have the following section of if statements that creates the respective code dependent on what option the user has selected from the view.

How could I save the selected options if statement so that I could insert it into the db.

I have tried 'field' => ''.$_REQUEST['add_fields_type'].'' but of course it just shows the selected option and not the html it should produce

Code:

if (isset($_REQUEST['add_fields_type']))
            {
                if($_REQUEST['add_fields_type'] == 'input')
                {
                    //$fieldLabel;
                    form_input($formData, TRUE);


                }

                if($_REQUEST['add_fields_type'] == 'textarea')
                {
                    $fieldLabel;
                    form_textarea($formData, TRUE);
                }

                if($_REQUEST['add_fields_type'] == 'radiobutton')
                {
                    $fieldLabel;
                    form_radio($formData, TRUE);
                }

                if($_REQUEST['add_fields_type'] == 'checkbox')
                {
                    $fieldLabel;
                    form_checkbox($formData, TRUE);
                }

Answer 1

Instead of doing:

if($_REQUEST['add_fields_type'] == 'textarea') {
    $fieldLabel;
    form_textarea($formData, TRUE);
}

You should do this if you want to save the HTML:

if($_REQUEST['add_fields_type'] == 'textarea') {
    $fieldLabel;
    $fields[] = form_textarea($formData, TRUE);
}

Or if you want to save the field data with field type, then do this:

if($_REQUEST['add_fields_type'] == 'textarea') {
    $fieldLabel;
    $fields[ $_REQUEST['add_fields_type'] ] = form_textarea($formData, TRUE);
}