PHP help in CodeIgniter

kitkat9933 · 9 Feb 2014 at 20:40

I am using the CodeIgniter framework to build a site.

I currently have a view which prints all the unverified members into a table and also puts a button for each member which can be clicked to Verify that account.

Here is the code for the view

Code:

<h2>Admin Control Panel</h2>
<?php
    /*
     * First Output Members to be verified in tables
     */

    //check if there is actually any data to print first.
        echo ("<h3> Members to be Verified</h3>");
        if(empty($unverified_members))
        {
            echo "<h4>There are currently no members to be verified </h4>";

        }
        else
        {
        $count_unverified_members=count($unverified_members);

        echo "<table border='1'>";

        //print table headers
        echo <<<HTML
        <th><div align ="center">ID Number</div></th>
        <th><div align ="center">Username</div></th>
        <th><div align ="center">E-Mail Address</div></th>
        <th><div align ="center">Verify Account</div></th>
HTML;

        for($arr_counter=0;$arr_counter<$count_unverified_members;$arr_counter++)
            {
                $current_member_id=$unverified_members[$arr_counter]->member_id;
                $current_username=$unverified_members[$arr_counter]->username;
                $current_email=$unverified_members[$arr_counter]->email;

                echo<<< HTML
                <tr>
                <td><div align ="center">$current_member_id</div></td>
                <td><div align ="center">$current_username</div></td>
                <td><div align ="center">$current_email</div></td>
                <td><form action="Verify" method="post"><div align ="center"><input type="submit" value="Verify" /></div></form></td>
                </tr>

HTML;
            }
        echo "</table><br><br>";

        }

?>

I am trying to pass to my controller the user to be verified.

In the second heredoc I have this bit of code

Code:

<td><form action="Verify" method="post"><div align ="center"><input type="submit" value="Verify" /></div></form></td>

I want to for that user submit the member_id of that user and also a flag of some description which would mean that the user with that member_id needs to be verified.

So in essence

Print users needing verfication into table->click verify for particular user to be verified->pass to controller the user selected and a flag to indicate that user can be verified-> controller passes info to model-> model sets flag in the Database saying that user can be verified->model moves all users with that flag set to the verified_users table.

I can do all the controller/model bits myself. It's just getting the data from the view to the controller I am struggling with.

Any help would me much appreciated! If any of it makes sense!

suarve · 10 Feb 2014 at 00:49

Quite a few options. Could wrap each submit button in a form, set the form action to your required controller and a add a hidden field (user id) for each table row. This hidden id will get posted to your controller. Alternatively, could just set the form action to your controller E.g. /users/verify/123, /users/verify/1234 etc and priocess the post of that.

Another option would be to just use a normal hyperlink that points to your controller with the user id.

kitkat9933 · 10 Feb 2014 at 09:00

suarve said:
Quite a few options. Could wrap each submit button in a form, set the form action to your required controller and a add a hidden field (user id) for each table row. This hidden id will get posted to your controller. Alternatively, could just set the form action to your controller E.g. /users/verify/123, /users/verify/1234 etc and priocess the post of that.

Another option would be to just use a normal hyperlink that points to your controller with the user id.

Thanks, second one is probably the easiest method to implement!

planty · 10 Feb 2014 at 09:11

Any operation that manipulates data on the server should be done by posting to the server, not performing a GET. Of the options suarve suggested, the first would be preferable.

kitkat9933 · 10 Feb 2014 at 19:32

planty said:
Any operation that manipulates data on the server should be done by posting to the server, not performing a GET. Of the options suarve suggested, the first would be preferable.

In the end I used his first option using post in a hidden field. Thanks for the help guys.