Insert one row using different models/pages - CodeIgniter - php

Question

I'm new to CodeIgniter and I'm building a simple I/O website. I have only one database, say test and only one table results, that looks like this:
screenshot of the table "results"
I have two views personal.php and songs.php. In the first one I collect the data values to be inserted into the fields 2,3, and 4, and the rest of the values are collected in the second view. They are then inserted into the table via their relevant models, personal_model and songs_model.
Now obviously, they will be inserted into 2 different rows which is not what I want. What is the trick here? How should I manage it? So far I have thought of getting the last ID but I have no idea how to do it. Thanks in advance!
personal.php (first view)
<?php echo validation_errors(); ?>
<?php echo form_open('data/personal'); ?> //passes the data to the controller that loads the personal_model.php
"some input fields"
<button type="submit" name="submit">Submit Data</button>
songs.php (second view)
<?php echo validation_errors(); ?>
<?php echo form_open('data/songs'); ?> //passes the data to the controller that loads the songs_model.php
"some input fields"
<button type="submit" name="submit">Submit Rating</button>
personal_model.php (first model)
<?php
class Personal_model extends CI_Model {
public function __construct()
{
$this->load->database();
}
public function insert_personal()
{
$this->load->helper('url');
$data = array(
'age' => $this->input->post('user_age'),
'education' => $this->input->post('user_edu'),
'twitter' => $this->input->post('user_twitter'),
'facebook' => $this->input->post('user_facebook')
);
return $this->db->insert('results', $data);
}
}
songs_model.php (second model)
<?php
class Ratings_model extends CI_Model {
public function __construct()
{
$this->load->database();
}
public function insert_ratings()
{
$this->load->helper('url');
#$this->load->database();
$data = array(
'score' => $this->input->post('rating'),
'song1' => $this->input->post('rnd1'),
'song2' => $this->input->post('rnd2')
);
return $this->db->insert('results', $data);
}
}

Answer 1

Your Controller Function should be like this.
public function personal()
{
$lastInsertedID = $this->Personal_model->insert_personal();
$this->session->set_userdata("personalID",$lastInsertedID);
}
Set the last inserted id into session in your above controller function which should be return from your Personal_model. Here is code.
public function insert_personal()
{
$this->load->helper('url');
$data = array(
'age' => $this->input->post('user_age'),
'education' => $this->input->post('user_edu'),
'twitter' => $this->input->post('user_twitter'),
'facebook' => $this->input->post('user_facebook')
);
$this->db->insert('results', $data);
return $this->db->insert_id();
}
Then update your existing row in your insert_ratings function instead of insert record. Here is code.
public function insert_ratings()
{
$data = array(
'score' => $this->input->post('rating'),
'song1' => $this->input->post('rnd1'),
'song2' => $this->input->post('rnd2')
);
$personalID = $this->session->userdata("personalID");
$this->db->where("id",$personalID);
$this->db->update('results', $data);
return $this->db->affected_rows();
}
Then no new record will insert into table while submit your song.php form it will update the existing one.