how to read response values from the form

[eluser]Thea_G[/eluser]
Thanks for the reply. I'm new to codeigniter and not quite sure where to find a good example of inserting and updating the database with data entered from a web form.

In my example above, the problem is with the $data variable, it isn't getting the values assigned from my post('fieldname') command. This is just a command I made up since I don't know the way I'm supposed to do it in codeigniter. I'm not sure how to pull the values out of the form so I can add them to my database.

thanks!