Codeigniter Form post controller advice - php

Question

would like some advice/help on how to connect form controller to post form method in my CI site. I want to data submitted from one viewer to another. Thank you for the help!!
Here is the controller Im using (Form.php), took if from another site:
Form.php
<?php
class Form extends CI_Controller {
public function __construct() {
parent::__construct();
}
// Show form in view page i.e view_page.php
public function form_show() {
$this->load->view("addEdit");
}
// When user submit data on view page, Then this function store data in array.
public function data_submitted() {
$data = array(
'file_name' => $this->input->post('file'),
'title' => $this->input->post('title')
);
// Show submitted data on view page again.
$this->load->view("profile", $data);
}
}
?>
Its to connect to this code:
addEdit.php
<form method="post" action="postAction.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Image</label>
<?php if(!empty($imgData['file_name'])){ ?>
<img src="uploads/images/<?php echo $imgData['file_name']; ?>">
<?php } ?>
<input type="file" name="image" class="form-control" >
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Title</label>
<input type="text" name="title" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter title" value="<?php echo !empty($imgData['title'])?$imgData['title']:''; ?>" >
</div>
Back
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo !empty($imgData['id'])?$imgData['id']:''; ?>">
<input type="submit" name="imgSubmit" class="btn btn-success" value="SUBMIT">
</form>
When I first tried to make it work I got this error:
404 Page Not Found
The page you requested was not found.
http://culturedkink.com/index.php/register/postAction.php(the url)
postAction.php is the form Im trying to get the data to work from
The end result is to have info submitted from addEdit.php be seen on profile.php with the help of postAction.php

Answer 1

make routes for it first.
config/routes.php
$route['add'] = 'Controller_name/data_submitted';
$route['edit/(:any)'] = 'Controller_name/data_submitted/$1';
where is your add/edit button put this there
for add
Add New
for edit button
$row['id'] is an example i m giving. you can get data by name and id..whatever you want.
Update
//controller
public function data_submitted($id=0) {
$data=array();
$data['dataDetails']=$this->get_profile_data_by_id($id);
$data['view'] = 'folder_name/addEdit';
if ($id > 0) {
$profileArray = [
'file_name' => $this->input->post('file'),
'title' => $this->input->post('title')
];
if ($this->User_model->editById($id, $profileArray)) {
$id = $id;
}
}
else{
$profileArray = [
'file_name' => $this->input->post('file'),
'title' => $this->input->post('title')
];
if ($this->User_model->add($id, $profileArray)) {
$id = $id;
}
}
$this->load->view("profile", $data);
}
form view page
<?php echo isset($dataDetails) ? "Update" : "Add"; ?>

Answer 2

First check your form method and action. Your action does not exist. First check how CI works with form. The action should have a method declared in a controller. The url looks like this,
When you submit the form the data will be submitted in this method. Whatever you need to do with this form data you can do that in this method.