auto fill a field from input box

[eluser]CroNiX[/eluser]
When they submit that form, in that controller, grab the post data and send it to another function which passes it to the view.

Hard to tell the data flow from the little code you provided. I don't understand why you have form elements in your anchor (first code). That won't work. Form elements only get sent from within <form></form> tags unless you are using javascript or something.