Creating the view and then the business logic?

[eluser]RaGe10940[/eluser]
Hello,

I have a controller like so :

Code:

public function index() {

        $data['content'] = 'homepage/login';
        $this -> load -> view('templates/no_jsTemplate', $data);
    }

Where index() is the login page ( first page any one will ever see)

Now that index page has a function that the form will send to which is :

Code:

public function login_user() {
        $this -> load -> library('form_validation');

        if ($this -> form_validation -> run('c_homepage/login_user') == FALSE) {
            $this -> index();
        } else {
            $this -> load -> model('m_homepage');
            $this -> m_homepapge -> login_user();
        }

    }

is it possible to condense this? I feel like having two controller functions per page is excessive no?

I tried this :

Code:

public function index() {
        if (!$this -> input -> post('login_user')) {  
// check if submit is clicked, if not then just load the data array and show the view
            $data['content'] = 'homepage/login';
            $this -> load -> view('templates/no_jsTemplate', $data);
        } else { // if it is clicked load the library and then do the validation and then load the model if validation passes and then do the login_user business calculation
            $this -> load -> library('form_validation');

            if ($this -> form_validation -> run('c_homepage/login_user') == FALSE) {
                $this -> index();
            } else {
                $this -> load -> model('m_homepage');
                $this -> m_homepapge -> login_user();
            }
        }
    }

but when doing this, this keeps me in a infinite loop of sorts.

[eluser]jairoh_[/eluser]

Code:

else {
                $this -> load -> model('m_homepage');
                $this -> m_homepapge -> login_user();
            }

$this -> m_homepapge -> login_user(); is the cause of your infinite loop sir.