MVC INSERT INTO Stuck with Where to go from here - php

Question

I have a model register.php (under app/model/register.php)
<?PHP
// Load the [default] db group
$this->load->database();
// Get Input from init form, sanitize, plop into variables.
class Register extends Model{
function formModel(){
//load parent constructor
parent::Model();
}
function sanitizeInput(){
var $name = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['fullname']);
var $email = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['email']);
var $pass = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['password']);
var $dySalt = mt_rand(20,100);
var $pass = hash('sha512',$dySalt.$pass);
}
// Set form variables into object; define db table
$registeredObject = new getSanitizeNewRegistrant();
$tbl = 'Fan';
function SendRequestForData(){
if{
$this->db->insert($tbl,$object);
// .. redirect()
echo "Sent";
}
else{
echo "Oops, could not register you";
}
}
}
?>
I'm loading this model into a controller registerUsers.php (under app/controller/registerUsers.php)
<?PHP
$this->load->model('register'),'', TRUE);
?>
I'm confused how I go about implementing this in a view from here?

Answer 1

The MVC framework works as follows:
Model interacts with the database:
Here is where you want to put all of your functions that do nothing more than insert and return data to/from the database.
Views are what the user sees:
Here is where you'll have your html pages that make use of the data you got through your model
Controllers simply connect the two:
The controller preps data, uses the model to interact with the database, and loads the views for the user to see
If you had a function registerUser() in your register model, you would do something like this to actually use it within a function in the controller:
$this->load->model( 'register' ); // Load register model
$return = $this->register->registerUser( $_POST['username'], $_POST['email'], $_POST['password'] ); // Try to register the user to the database
if( $return === "TRUE" ) {
$this->load->view( 'success' ); // Hooray!
}
else {
$this->load->view( 'fail' ); // :(
}
Here, the controller loads the register model, tries to save the username, email and password using the registerUser() function within the model, and loads the correct view accordingly.
Obviously you'll want to clean $_POST data and everything before writing it to the database. This should be done within the controller.