How send user back to homepage after Form controller is complete? [SOLVED]

[eluser]CoderReborn[/eluser]
On my homepage, I have a Form that calls a controller named "doing_form" when the user clicks the Submit button.

In my controller code, after I've handled the form, I want to send the user back to the homepage (http://localhost) - preferably with a success message, too.

How do I do this?

Thanks!

[eluser]Simian Studios[/eluser]
Easiest way to do this would be to redirect() them back to the homepage, and then use flashdata to show the message - you would just have to output the flashdata in your template.

First step is to auto-load the session library (if you aren't already), so do that in system/application/config/autoload.php

So in your controller you would have something like the following:

Code:

$this->load->helper('url'); // if not already loaded

$this->session->set_flashdata('message', 'Thanks for filling in the form!');

redirect('/');

And then drop the following line into your homepage template (or even better, the overall layout so you could show flashdata on any page):

Code:

<?php echo $this->session->flashdata('message'); ?>

For more info on flashdata and how it works, check out the manual page on sessions.

[eluser]CoderReborn[/eluser]
Thanks! This was helpful.

I had to pass in the name of my "home" controller into the redirect() helper.
"/" did not work.