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Re-Direct vs Load View - Help Please! - El Forum - 02-24-2014
[eluser]Hayezb[/eluser]
Hello!
I'm fairly new to CodeIgniter and I'm having some issues with re-direct vs loading my view when a form is submitted successfully and/or unsuccessfully. I want to use view, because with re-direct I'm having to put all my validation errors and POST data in sessions which is very annoying.
Here's a break down of the user process...
1.) User selects a company from a data table.
2.) User chooses to Add Location for this company and the form opens up with following URL: http://virtue-dev/administration/vendors/add_vendor_location/2
How do I load this view without having to do a re-direct?
Will not work:
Code:
$this->load->view('administration/header');
$this->load->view('administration/vendors/add_vendor_location/ID Goes Here');
$this->load->view('administration/footer');I get the following error:
Code:
Unable to load the requested file: administration/add_vendor_location/2.phpRe-Direct vs Load View - Help Please! - El Forum - 02-24-2014
[eluser]Ckirk[/eluser]
You shouldn't have to worry about input and errors.
In short you should use $this->load->view() when you need to retain the input data and redirect() when you're done.
Something like this:
Code:
function theform()
{
if ($this->form_validation->run() == TRUE) // If no validation errors
{
// Insert code to handle form input
// We no longer need the input data so redirect to start with a clean slate - especially if the page we're loading now is the form
redirect('xxx/xxx');
}
// We'll only get here if form_validation is false
$this->load->view('theFormView', $this->data);
} /* End of function theform() */I'm just off to bed so may have misunderstood your question but I hope this helps
