Question

I’m building my first CodeIgniter app – and have a registration form. I’m using the built-in form validation class to validate the data, and am at the point of adding that data to the database.

Should I be taking that data from the form validation class or from the input class ($this->input->post(‘username’))?

I’m guessing the correct way is from the input class, but just wanted to be sure. If that’s the case, if there any prepping of the data I need to do before it gets inserted into the database such as ‘trim’?

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes you would get the data from the input class. Operations such as trim() can be done using the form validation library by adding the trim to the set of rules for validation. When the validation is done, your data is ready to be inserted to the database.