Posting a form to DB when form contains ’form_textarea’

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Posting a form to DB when form contains ’form_textarea’ - El Forum - 11-01-2012

[eluser]Energetic Pixels[/eluser]
Ok, I have the following form:

Code:
&lt;?php echo form_open('Glossary/createTerm');

   $data_textarea = array(

    'name' => 'definition',

    'id' => 'definition',

    'cols' => '30',

    'rows' => '12'

    );

   echo form_label('Course Number', 'crseNumber');

   echo form_input('crseNumber', 'Course Number');

   echo form_label('Term', 'term');

   echo form_input('term', 'Term');

   echo form_label('Definition', 'definition');

   echo form_textarea($data_textarea);

   echo form_label('Realm', 'realm');

   echo form_input('realm', 'Realm');

   echo form_label('Module/Lesson', 'lesson-module');

   echo form_input('module-lesson', 'Module/Lesson');

   echo form_submit('submit', 'Submit');

  ?&gt;   

  &lt;?php echo form_close(); ?&gt;

My control function looks like:

Code:
function createTerm() {

  $data = array(

   'crseNumber' => $this->input->post('crseNumber'),

   'term' => $this->input->post('term'),

   'definition' => $this->textarea->post('definition'),

   'realm' => $this->input->post('realm'),

   'lesson-module' => $this->input->post('lesson-module')

   );

  $this->gloss_model->create_term($data);

  $this->index();

 }

But when I run it, I get a undefined property pointing to the 'textarea' within the createTerm function. When I change that specific line to be '$this->input->post..' it works. By using the 'input' method, is the correct way??

respectfully,
Anthony

Posting a form to DB when form contains ’form_textarea’ - El Forum - 11-01-2012

[eluser]jmadsen[/eluser]
hi E-P,

This area is for "General CodeIgniter Discussion (no code)"

Please post in the Code area for a response.

thank you

Posting a form to DB when form contains ’form_textarea’ - El Forum - 11-01-2012

[eluser]Robin Sowell[/eluser]
Wink

I shifted it over for you.

And yes, unless you've got something going on we can't see, $this->textarea isn't defined. What [url="http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/input.html"]$this->input->post('x')[/url] will do is simply return $_POST['x'] or FALSE if undefined. More or less. Since it looks like you named your textarea field 'definition', then $this->input->post('definition') should give you what you want (i.e., $_POST['definition'], only better).