How to access data from form validating controller in codeigniter? - php

Question

I followed the tutorial for making a registration form with validation, with 2 views and 1 controller.
I wrote this in the controller:
function index()
{
$this->load->helper(array('form', 'url'));
$this->load->library('form_validation');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('username', 'Username', 'trim|required|min_length[3]|max_length[16]|xss_clean|callback_username_check');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('password', 'Password', 'trim|required|matches[passconf]|md5');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('passconf', 'Password Confirmation', 'trim|required');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('email', 'Email', 'trim|required|valid_email');
if ($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE)
{
$this->load->view('register_form');
}
else
{
$this->load->view('register_success');
$data = array(
'IDUser' => NULL ,
'Username' => "$username" ,
'Password' => 'password' ,
'Email' => 'email' ,
'Gender' => 'gender' ,
'Birthday' => 'bday' ,
);
$this->db->insert('Accounts', $data);
}
}
First it is executes a working sql insert. After, a validation. Nevertheless, the values loaded from the database are not those from the validation. Instead, they are the same plain text in the array.
I don't want to get the values directly from the form/view with POST; that's pointless. What do i do? I'm new to Codeigniter and not that familiar with OOP PHP.

Answer 1

You just have to use Codeigniter Input class : http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/input.html
So in your case:
$username = $this->input->post('username');
$password = $this->input->post('password');
$passconf = $this->input->post('passconf');
$email = $this->input->post('email');

Answer 2

dragu is correct but please use this format:
$username = $this->input->post('username', TRUE);
the TRUE tells codeigniter to XSS clean which is a security feature you definitely want. Thats also why you put XSS clean in the form validation. from yr example:
$this->form_validation->set_rules('username', 'Username', 'trim|required|min_length[3]|max_length[16]|xss_clean|callback_username_check');
If the form fails validation, then CI can display the results in the form again. having xss_clean in the validation cleans those values.