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[eluser]ururk[/eluser]
There is a way to extend this to also serve as a one-stop database table editor, using a single view for the form. I've made tweaks to the standard 'form' generated like so:

In my model:

Code:

function SaveForm($form_data)
function UpdateForm($form_data, $id)
function DeleteForm($id)
function GetForm($id)
function GetForms()

In my View:

Code:

echo form_open('myform/add', $attributes); ?>

Example form element ($var instead of set_value):

Code:

<p>
        <label for="role_name">Role Name <span class="required">*</span></label>
        &lt;?php echo form_error('role_name'); ?&gt;
        <br />&lt;input id="role_name" type="text" name="role_name" value="&lt;?php echo $role_name; ?&gt;"  /&gt;
</p>

&lt;input type="hidden" name="id" value="&lt;php echo $id; ?&gt;" />
&lt;input type="hidden" name="operation" value="&lt;?php echo $operation ?&gt;" /&gt;

In my controller:

Code:

function index() - generalized for loop using a table generated via GetForms
    function add() - handles UPDATES and INSERTS
        $this->_validate(); // moved to separate function just to tidy the code up a bit
        $validate_fields = $this->form_validation->run();

        $form_data = array(
            'myform_name' => set_value('myform_name'),
            'myform_level' => set_value('myform_level')
        );

        if ($validate_fields == FALSE) // validation hasn't been passed
        {
            $form_data['role_id'] = set_value('role_id');
            $form_data['operation'] = set_value('operation');
            $data['content'] = $this->load->view('admin/roles_view', $form_data, true);
        }
        else // passed validation proceed to post success logic
        {
            if (set_value('operation') == 'edit') {
                // run update model to write data to db
                if ($this->myform_model->UpdateForm($form_data, set_value('role_id')) == TRUE) {
                    redirect('myform');
                } else {
                    $data['content'] = 'An error occurred updating the data.';
                }
            } else {
                // run insert model to write data to db
                if ($this-> myform_model->SaveForm($form_data) == TRUE) {
                    redirect('myform');
                } else {
                    $data['content'] = 'An error occurred adding the data.';
                }
            }
        }
    function edit($row_id) {
        if ($this->myform_model->GetForm($row_id) == TRUE) {
            $data = $this->myform_model->GetForm($row_id);
            $data['operation'] = 'edit';
            $data['content'] = $this->load->view('admin/roles_view', $data, true);
        } else {
            $data['content'] = 'Could not find the requested record.';
        }
        $this->load->view('myform', $data);
    }
    function delete($row_id) - deletes a single record

I could post my full code, but it is pretty basic stuff - the code above is chopped up to make it a bit more compact, and I got a little lazy in changing the names I used . The trouble occurs when you go to use the form helpers that set values - some require POST values, such that I had to rewrite the cb, rb, and select setters. There may be unintended consequences to this, but they seem to work.