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Inserting post data - El Forum - 06-06-2010
[eluser]elmne[/eluser]
If i want to insert post data into the database but exclude empty fields (POSTS) that a user may not have filled in, how do i achieve that?
Validation cannot stop this, as it checks only for values that are a must to fill in, but if teh user doesn't have to fill in things like all address fields and certain other fields, then these should not be input.
How do i check each POST field within the model for this?
I tried this below
Code:
if (!empty($this->input->post('title'))) { $this->title = $this->input->post('title'); }
if (!empty($this->input->post('firstname') )) {$this->firstname = $this->input->post('firstname'); }
if (!empty($this->input->post('middlename') )) {$this->middlename = $this->input->post('middlename'); }
...........but I got this error message
Quote:Fatal error: Can't use method return value in write context
Inserting post data - El Forum - 06-06-2010
[eluser]Armchair Samurai[/eluser]
RTM: empty()
You can only use variables with empty() - anything else will throw an error. If you want to do this, maybe best to loop through the post array then remove anything that has no value.
Alternately:
Code:
if ( ! empty($_POST['title'])) { $this->title = $this->input->post('title'); }
if ( ! empty($_POST['firstname'])) {$this->firstname = $this->input->post('firstname'); }
if ( ! empty($_POST['middlename'])) {$this->middlename = $this->input->post('middlename'); }
...........Inserting post data - El Forum - 06-07-2010
[eluser]vitoco[/eluser]
$this->input->post('index') return FALSE when the 'index' is not set... so
Code:
if (!is_bool($this->input->post('title'))) { $this->title = $this->input->post('title'); }
if (!is_bool($this->input->post('firstname') )) {$this->firstname = $this->input->post('firstname'); }
if (!is_bool($this->input->post('middlename') )) {$this->middlename = $this->input->post('middlename'); }
...........Saludos
Inserting post data - El Forum - 06-07-2010
[eluser]elmne[/eluser]
Thanks for that