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Checking if a request is POST? - El Forum - 02-20-2010
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
How can I check if a request was submitted with the POST method (does CI offer a shorter way than "if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST')")?
Checking if a request is POST? - El Forum - 02-20-2010
[eluser]sqwk[/eluser]
Code:
$something = $this->input->post('something');http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/input.html
Checking if a request is POST? - El Forum - 02-20-2010
[eluser]skunkbad[/eluser]
[quote author="squawk" date="1266706903"]
Code:
$something = $this->input->post('something');http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/input.html[/quote]
That only checks for the existence of $_POST['something'], so it won't work.
Checking if a request is POST? - El Forum - 02-20-2010
[eluser]heavenquake[/eluser]
I don't believe there is, but you could write a quick helper function that did it for you.
Personally I extend input->post() to, if no argument is given, return TRUE if anything has been posted at all. You might want to do something similar.
Checking if a request is POST? - El Forum - 02-20-2010
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
How do you override controller methods, preserving the old one? Like in Ruby I'd do
Code:
class Controller
alias_method :post_orig, :post
def post *args
if args.empty?
# Code to determine if POST
else
post_orig args
end
end
endSorry for the example in another lang, my PHP is rusty.
Checking if a request is POST? - El Forum - 02-20-2010
[eluser]heavenquake[/eluser]
input->post is not a controller method, but a method of the input library ( http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/input.html ).
In CodeIgniter you extend core libraries (such as input) by placing a file called MY_Input.php in your libraries folder, with the following prototype:
Code:
class MY_Input extends CI_Input {
//your extended code here
}in your case it would be something alá:
Code:
class MY_Input extends CI_Input {
function post($index = '', $xss_clean = FALSE)
{
// this will be true if post() is called without arguments
if($index === '')
{
return ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST');
}
// otherwise do as normally
return parent::post($index, $xss_clean);
}
}Checking if a request is POST? - El Forum - 02-21-2010
[eluser]hugle[/eluser]
[quote author="heavenquake" date="1266739418"]input->post is not a controller method, but a method of the input library ( http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/input.html ).
In CodeIgniter you extend core libraries (such as input) by placing a file called MY_Input.php in your libraries folder, with the following prototype:
Code:
class MY_Input extends CI_Input {
//your extended code here
}in your case it would be something alá:
Code:
class MY_Input extends CI_Input {
function post($index = '', $xss_clean = FALSE)
{
// this will be true if post() is called without arguments
if($index === '')
{
return ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST');
}
// otherwise do as normally
return parent::post($index, $xss_clean);
}
}thank you very much for this extension,it's more like CI style.
I used to use this:
Code:
if($_POST)
{
// do something
}