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Adding comments to a post - El Forum - 10-28-2013
[eluser]Lykos22[/eluser]
Hi all, I'd like some help please, I 've completly stuck!
I have a post page that has the full post and below the post a small form for adding comments. The uri of the post page is: site/posts/1, so it is in posts controller, and the form action is form_open(site_url('comments/add/'.$post->post_id)).
This is my add() function inside comments controller:
Code:
public function add($post_id){
// if nothing posted redirect
if (!$this->input->post()) {
redirect(site_url());
}
// TODO: save comment in database
$this->form_validation->set_rules($this->comment_model->rules);
if ($this->form_validation->run() == true) {
$this->comment_model->add($post_id);
redirect('posts/'.$post_id);
}
// TODO:load the view if required
}and this is the add() function inside the comment model:
Code:
public function add($post_id){
$post_data = array(
'post_id' => $post_id,
'username' => $this->input->post('username'),
'email' => $this->input->post('email'),
'comment' => $this->input->post('comment')
);
$this->db->insert('comments', $post_data);
if ($this->db->affected_rows()) {
return $this->db->insert_id();
}
return false;
}What I'm trying to do is if the $result = $this->comment_model->add($post_id); fails the validation to display the validation errors in my post view, else insert the comment and redirect to the same post page (site/posts/1).
The problem is that when I hit submit the form action goes in the comments/add/1, as expected, but doesn't do any these above.
Any ideas how can I fix this?? Can also found here
Adding comments to a post - El Forum - 10-29-2013
[eluser]rappasoft[/eluser]
You seem to be returning an id on success but not checking if it was false or not:
This:
Code:
if ($this->form_validation->run() == true) {
$this->comment_model->add($post_id);
redirect('posts/'.$post_id);
}Could be this:
Code:
if ($this->form_validation->run() == true) {
if ($id = $this->comment_model->add($post_id)) {
redirect('posts/'.$id);
} else {
//Returned false, show errors
}
}Adding comments to a post - El Forum - 10-29-2013
[eluser]Lykos22[/eluser]
The problem was that I wasn't passing the validation_errors() back to the Posts controller, due to the redirect all the validation errors were lost. So the only solution I found was to store them in flashdata and send them back to the Posts controller.
However if there's another better way I'd be grateful if you could inform me.