Question

This i’m sure is a simple overlook, but its given me quite a headache in a short time period.

Im trying to post data from this view:

<?php
if (!$this->tank_auth->is_logged_in()) 
    {
        echo "<a href='index.php/auth/login'>Login</a>";
    } else { ?>
<form method="POST" action="create_community">
    <label>Community Name: </label><input type="text" name="communityname" value="231"/><br>
    <label>Description: </label><br><textarea name="communitydesc"></textarea><br>
    <label>Image Location(URL): </label><input type="text" name="imageloc"/><br>
    <input type="radio" name="privacy" value="public" /> public<br />
    <input type="radio" name="privacy" value="private" /> private<br />
    <input type="radio" name="privacy" value="business" /> business<br />
    <input type='submit'/>
</form>        
<?php    }
?>

create controller is the following:

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

class Create extends CI_Controller {

    function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();

        $this->load->library('tank_auth');
        $this->load->library('encrypt');
        $this->load->library('session');

        $this->load->model('topbar_model');
        $this->load->model('left_model');
        $this->load->model('right_model');
        /*
        $this->load->model('right_model');
        $this->load->model('left_model');
        $this->load->model('topic_model');
        */
        $this->load->helper('url');
        $this->load->helper('form_helper');
        $this->load->helper('form');

        $this->load->helper(array('form', 'url'));
    $this->load->library('form_validation');
        $this->load->library('security');
        $this->load->library('tank_auth');
        $this->lang->load('tank_auth');
    }

    public function index()
    {
            $this->load->view('create_community');
    }

    public function create_community()
        {
            $this->load->view('templates/head');
            echo "testing"; 
            print_r($this->input->post());
        }

}

create_community shows “testing” but does not show the post. I’ve tried posting individual input contents as well, and just get nothing.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The believe $this->input->get_post() is a method call, not a class variable, so you can’t handle like you would $_POST[].

If you are wanting to follow traditional form processing using POST, use the standard $_POST[] assoc. array, but be aware that there might be a CSRF field that will be included, and that you will need to handle.

Also, I don’t know how you are routing, but shouldn’t your form action be ‘create/create_community’, unless you are routing past ‘create’ for all calls at this point.