Posting a form that is included in a page

[eluser]Flemming[/eluser]
Hi Jamie,

A quick and dirty summary of the MVC architecture:

Model - all your database queries

Contollers - logic, as much as possible of it

Views - HTML, with as little logic as possible ideally


A controller won't send validation messages through a redirect, which is why I suggested you post the dashboard form to the dashboard controller. If it fails validation then you WILL get the validation error data sent back to the view in validation_errors().

If you're using AJAX though, it doesn't matter where you post the data! So you can either start your AJAX work now (definitely use jQuery and it's AJAX or $post features) ... or you can spend a bit of time getting more familiar with CI and MVC first (sounds like a good idea) and then move on to AJAX.

Keep asking questions and I or someone else will be happy to answer them - but don't forget to search the forums too for answers if you think your questions are obvious/common ones!