Codeigniter: Submitted form is not showing values - php

Question

Kindly have a visit on following link: Demo link for problem
You can view that form is not showing submitted values and not uploading file.
Following is form code :
<form id="frm" name="frm" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<fieldset class="fieldset2">
<legend class="legend2">Add Bid Type</legend>
<div class="form_fields">
<p>
<label for="subject" class="label2">Bid Type:</label>
<input type="input" id="type" name="type" class="textfield2" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="subject" class="label2">Bid Type Code:</label>
<input type="input" id="code" name="code" class="textfield2" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="description" class="label2">Bid Type Description:</label>
<textarea id="description" name="description" class="textarea2"></textarea>
</p>
<p>
<label for="userfile" class="label2">Icon:</label>
<input type="file" id="userfile" name="userfile" class="input_file" />
</p>
</div>
</fieldset>
<fieldset class="none">
<p>
<input type="submit" id="btnsubmit" name="btnsubmit" class="btn" value="Add" />
<input type="reset" id="btnreset" name="btnreset" class="btn" value="Reset" />
</p>
</fieldset>
</form>`
And following is controller code :
function create() {
$data = '';
echo '<pre>';
echo 'below is Post Fields Data:<br>';
print_r($this->input->post());
echo '<br>Post Fields Data Ends: ';
echo '</pre>';
$this->form_validation->set_rules('type', 'Bid Type', 'trim|required|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('code', 'Bid Type Code', 'trim|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('description', 'Bid Type description', 'trim|xss_clean');
$data['errors'] = array();
if ($this->form_validation->run()) {
$data = array(
'code' => $this->form_validation->set_value('code'),
'type' => $this->form_validation->set_value('type'),
'description' => $this->form_validation->set_value('description'),
);
if (!is_null($this->bid_types->create_bid_type($data))){
$data['errors']['success'] = 'Record Successfully Added!';
} else {
$errors = $this->bid_types->get_error_message();
foreach ($errors as $k => $v) $data['errors'][$k] = $this->lang->line($v);
}
$config['upload_path'] = base_url().'resource/images/uploads/';
$config['allowed_types'] = 'gif|jpg|png';
//$config['max_size'] = '100';
//$config['max_width'] = '1024';
//$config['max_height'] = '768';
$this->load->library('upload', $config);
if ( ! $this->upload->do_upload())
{
$data['errors']['upload'] = 'Not Uploaded';
//$data['errors']['upload'] = $this->upload->display_errors();
//$error = array('error' => $this->upload->display_errors());
//$this->load->view('upload_form', $error);
}
else
{
$data['errors']['upload'] = 'Yes Uploaded';
//$data['errors']['upload'] = $this->upload->data();
//$data = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());
//$this->load->view('upload_success', $data);
}
echo '<pre>';
print_r($this->upload->data());
echo '</pre>';
} /* END OF FORM VALIDATRION RUN */
if(!$this->input->is_ajax_request() && !$this->input->get_post('is_ajax'))
{
$this->load->view('bend/bid_type/create', $data);
}
} /* END OF FUNCTION CREATE */
Can some one guide me what and where Iam doing wrong and how it can be rectrified.

Answer 1

File data appears in $_FILE not in $_POST.
I think this line is your problem:
$config['upload_path'] = base_url().'resource/images/uploads/';
This $config['upload_path'] should point to a file system path, not a URL.
Try something more like:
$config['upload_path'] = realpath(APPPATH . '../resource/images/uploads/');
which will start from your application folder, up one folder then into resource/images/uploads
change it accordingly if its somewhere else.
p.s. Also check your write permissions.

Answer 2

put $this->output->enable_profiler(TRUE) on the first line of create() function, it will show you very usefull information $_POST global to debug your code like

Answer 3

Charles shows that the request from the form submit does contain the post data.
Does anything else happen before the create() function that could wipe the POST data?

Answer 4

I would add an action attribute to the form using echo form_open('/phpdemo/b1/admin/bid_type/create') as described in the user manual.

Answer 5

you can not use
$this->form_validation->set_rules('code', 'Bid Type Code', 'trim|xss_clean');
in multipart , so you must create your own function for validation and use callbacks