Opening a bootstrap modal dialog on by loading a view in codeigniter - php

Question

Scenario: User clicks the Login with Facebook link, but actually user is not registered in the database. Code for the url is:
<a href="<?php echo $this->authlib->fbloginURL(site_url() . 'auth/facebooklogin'); ?>">
In the auth/facebooklogin() function, I am checking for this condition, and if the user is not registered, I want to open a modal for registration.
Code Snippet in facebooklogin() that checks and redirects:
if(is_null( $this->authlib->has_account( $fb_id ) ) ) // User has no account
redirect('/auth/register_modal');
And the register_modal() function simply loads the new view that I want to display:
function register_modal()
{
$this->load->view('include/header');
$this->load->view('auth/register_modal');
$this->load->view('include/footer');
}
Now for the purpose of discussion my modal dialog is:
<div class="modal hide" id="myModal">
<div class="modal-header">
<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">x</button>
<h3>Login to MyWebsite.com</h3>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<form method="post" action='' name="login_form">
<p><input type="text" class="span3" name="eid" id="email" placeholder="Email"></p>
<p><input type="password" class="span3" name="passwd" placeholder="Password"></p>
<p><button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Sign in</button>
Forgot Password?
</p>
</form>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
New To MyWebsite.com?
Register
</div>
</div>
This does not work.. I was wondering what am I doing wrong? All relevant bootstrap files are loaded in the header.

Answer 1

Found the solution myself. I just had to change the following in my modal:
<div class="modal hide" id="myModal">
to
<div class="modal show" id="myModal">
i.e. change the hide to show. Silly me :)

Answer 2

Login
</diV>
<div class="modal-body">
</div>
<div class="modal-footer" id="modal-footer" >
</div>