repopulate a form with data from table

[eluser]Ellli[/eluser]
well, you overwrite $data['single_user'] with $data = array(...);

add an indec to your $data after update like this $data['new_data']:

Code:

function edit()
{
    $this->load->model('user_model');
        
    //here the code to populate the fields with actual data - added an index
    $data['single_user'] =  $this->user_model->get_data_user();    
    
    
    //this is for update the actual data with new data
    $data['new_data'] = array(
      'user_firstname' => $this->input->post('firstname'),
      'user_lastname' => $this->input->post('lastname'),
      'user_username' => $this->input->post('username'),
      'user_password' => $this->input->post('password'),
      'user_email' => $this->input->post('email')        
    );

    $this->user_model->edit_user($data);
    $this->load->view('edit_user_form', $data);
}

and in view if you want to get value of $data['single_user']->... write $single_user and if you want to get value of $data['new_data'] write $new_data->...