Question

I realise this request goes against the example provided in the CI documentation (which advises a separate ‘success’ page view), but I would like to reutilise a given form view after a form has been successfully submitted – displaying a success message then displaying a blank form. I’ve tried a few ways unsuccessfully to clear the validation set values (unsetting $_POST, setting rules / fields to an empty array and rerunning validation).

I could redirect to the same page, but then I’d have to set a session variable to display a success message – which is a messy approach.

Any ideas how to best achieve the above?

Answer 1

Redirect to itself. This way, no submissions have been run… This also gives you a way to show the flash_data.

    $this->load->library('form_validation');

    $this->form_validation->set_rules('firstname', 'First Name', 'required');
    $this->form_validation->set_rules('surname', 'Sur Name', 'required');

    if ($this->form_validation->run() === TRUE)
    {
                    // save data

        $this->session->set_flashdata('message', 'New Contact has been added');
        redirect(current_url());
    }

    $this->load->view('contacts/add', $this->data);