404 when accessing a function in a controller

Hi,
This is my first iteration of Codeigniter and I'm having trouble calling a function inside a controller.
I've used this tutorial more or less verbatim to set up: https://www.positronx.io/codeigniter-aut...-tutorial/
I have modified the 'welcome view' (https://example.com) with 2 buttons, 'Access' and 'Register'. 
I have 2 Controllers, 

Code:

SignupController.php & SigninController.php

In the signup controller, there are 2 public functions:

PHP Code:

public function index() 


which calls the 'form' helper and invokes the 'signup' view, and

PHP Code:

public function store() 


which verifies the input data and inserts it to the database.
The signup view contains the form html:

Code:

<form action="<?php echo base_url(); ?>/SignupController/store" method="post">

When I click the 'Register' button on the welcome page, this correctly calls the signup page: example.com/signup
But when I click the 'Submit' button of the form, example.com/SignupController/store, I get 404 File not found.
Can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong?
The Routes.php file has

PHP Code:

$routes->get('/signup', 'SignupController::index'); 


and I have tried to add

PHP Code:

$routes->get('/signup', 'SignupController::store'); 


, but it makes no difference.

1. You have registered a route for the HTTP GET method. But the form is submitted using the HTTP POST method.
2. You are registering the /signup route, but using the /SignupController/store address.

Thanks very much for the prompt reply.
Are you referring to

PHP Code:

[code]$routes->get('/signup', 'SignupController::store'); [/code]?

The 404 error was appearing, even without adding that to the 'Routes.php' file.

~ Dave 


Add a (general) post route in routes.php:

Code:

$routes->get('/SignupController', 'SignupController::index');
$routes->post('/SigupController/(:any)', 'SignupController::$1');

In View/signup.php

PHP Code:

<form action="<?php echo base_url(); ?>/SignupController/store" method="post"> 


In app/Config/Routes.php:

PHP Code:

$routes->post('/SigupController/(:any)', 'SignupController::$1'); 


Result (called using form->Submit): 404, File not found.
Result (using https://example.com/SignupController/store in Browser): 404, File not found.


In View/signup.php

PHP Code:

<form action="<?php echo base_url(); ?>store" method="post"> 


In app/Config/Routes.php:

PHP Code:

$routes->get('/store', 'SignupController::store'); 


Result (called using form->Submit): 404, File not found.
Result (using https://example.com/store in Browser): Function called correctly, page displayed.

In View/signup.php

PHP Code:

<form action="<?php echo base_url(); ?>/store" method="post"> 


In app/Config/Routes.php:

PHP Code:

$routes->post('/store', 'SignupController::store'); 


Result (called using form->Submit): 404, File not found.
Result (using https://example.com/store in Browser): Function called correctly, page displayed.

~Dave

Probably because of a typo you got the error, I missed the 'n' in /SignupController and I guess you copy/paste it.

Code:

$routes->post('/SigupController/(:any)', 'SignupController::$1'); 

Advice. Never use hard URLs in links. Use the url_to("login.signup") function when adding route names ['as' => 'login.signup']
You will have fewer problems and more flexibility in generating
See https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpe...tml#url_to

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Probably because of a typo you got the error, I missed the 'n' in /SignupController and I guess you copy/paste it.

Code:

$routes->post('/SigupController/(:any)', 'SignupController::$1'); 

Thanks, John.

Yes, I just copied-and-pasted and didn't notice the typo.

Still getting the 404, though.

~Dave

Advice. Never use hard URLs in links. Use the url_to("login.signup") function when adding route names ['as' => 'login.signup']
You will have fewer problems and more flexibility in generating
See https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpe...tml#url_to

Thanks: I'll bear that in mind.

As I mentioned, this is my first implementation of Codeigniter, so any tips are very welcome.

~ Dave

Thanks.

I've got it working.

Using

PHP Code:

$routes->post('/store', 'SignupController::store'); 


in Routes.php did the trick.

(I must have had a typo in there when I tried earlier).

Sorry for the confusion.

~ Dave