Form to email: passing success / fail message back to view - howto?

[eluser]rweston[/eluser]
stef, from the other thread, i swapped some stuff around. e.g. the loading of the view after the check for the posted data and added a 'definition' for $feedback.

I'm fairly 'new' to working with CI, but i've stuck with passing data to the view using the 2nd paramater of the view method ( $this -> load -> view ('viewname', $data) ), but i'll have to check out the load -> vars method and get familar with it.

Code:

class Mailer extends Controller {
    function index() {      
        
        $feedback = array('message' => '');
        //check to see if form is being submitted
        if($this->input->post('sendCheck'))
        {
            //load email library
            $this->load->library('email');
            
            //text alternative
            $textMail = "this is a text replacement";
            
            //grab values
            $fromName = $this->input->post('fromName');
            $fromEmail = $this->input->post('fromEmail');
            $toName = $this->input->post('toName');
            $toEmail = $this->input->post('toEmail');                    
            
            //insert values
            $this->email->from($fromEmail, $fromName);
            $this->email->to($toEmail, $toName);
            $this->email->subject($fromName.' would like to recommend Company X to you');
            $this->email->message('<p>All your base are belong to us</p>');
            $this->email->set_alt_message($textMail);
            echo $this->email->print_debugger();
                        
            //send mail + success / fail message            
            if (!$this->email->send()) {
                $feedback = array(
                'message' => 'Sorry, message could not be sent'
                );    
                $this->load->vars($feedback);
            }            
            else {
                $feedback = array(
                'message' => 'Message sent!'
                );    
                $this->load->vars($feedback);
            }                              
        }
                
        //load the default view, the main index.php html design
        $this->load->view('index');                    
    }
}