Form flow

[eluser]OllieBR[/eluser]
Hi guys, i´m new to CI my question is that if is right to make (whitout form validation class) a form using the same function that send you the view with the form as the function that receives the $_POST, something like this

Code:

function insert()
    {            
        if($_POST){
            echo 'do something with the data, like sending to a model function';
        }else{
            $this->load->helper(array('form', 'url'));
            
            //get data to populate the form with select options
            $data['countries'] = $this->mdTest->get_all_countries();        
            
            $this->load->view('Test/viewInsert',$data);
        }
    }

I came to this because I don´t want to create a new function only to receive the data from the form.

tnx