codeigniter form not submitting data

Question

I have tried everything I can think of but whenever I click submit the form passes on a null value, I dont know if it is the problem with the form or the controller or even the view. I changed this->input->post to posted data and i get an error of undefined variable posted data, please help.

Controller:

 public function addmenu(){

    $this->load->model('organizer_model');

    $data = array(
                'menu_name' => $this->input->post('menu name'), 
                'price' => $this->input->post('price'),
                'email' => $this->session->userdata('email')

            );

            if($this->organizer_model->insertmenu($data)) {

    $this->session->set_flashdata('message', 'Your menu has been added');
    redirect('/menu/index', 'refresh');

    } else {

    $this->session->set_flashdata('message', 'Your menu was not added, please try again');
    redirect('/menu/index', 'refresh');
    }

View:

              <form action="<?php echo site_url('Organizer/addmenu'); ?>" method="post" class="form-horizontal no-margin">

                  <div class="control-group">
                    <label class="control-label" for="menuname">
                     Menu Name
                    </label>
                    <div class="controls controls-row">
                      <input class="span3" name="data[menuname]" type="text" placeholder="Enter menu Name">
                    </div>
                  </div>

                  <div class="control-group">
                    <label class="control-label" for="price">
                      Price
                    </label>
                    <div class="controls controls-row">
                      <input class="span3" name="data[price]" type="text" placeholder="">
                    </div>
                  </div>

                  <div class="form-actions no-margin">
                    <button type="submit" name="submit" class="btn btn-info pull-right">
                      Add menu
                    </button>
                    <div class="clearfix">
                    </div>
                  </div>

                </form>

Model:

   public function insertmenu($data) {

    $condition = "email = '" . $data['email'] . "'";
    $this->db->select('organizer_id');
    $this->db->from('organizer');
    $this->db->where($condition);
    $this->db->limit(1);
    $query = $this->db->get();

    if ($query->num_rows() > 0){

        array_pop($data); //will remove email from data

        $row = $query->row();
        $data['organizer_id'] = $row->organizer_id;

        $this->db->insert('menu', $data);
        if ($this->db->affected_rows() > 0) {
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    } else {
        return false;
    }

}

iirc, this code: `$this->input->post('price')` expects this `` — castis, Jun 11 '15 at 00:58
okay so i changed it to price but it is still entering data into the db, why is that? — ahmad, Jun 11 '15 at 01:04
title says `CI form does not submitting data` does that mean you did not do any mistake?Improve your question.debugging help type question is off-topic at SO.You should write the full error message,and the error message also the answer what mistake you did. — Shaiful Islam, Jun 11 '15 at 05:06

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

I notice same question here codeigniter- insert data into db not working

Checks

Make sure you load your form helper and url helper.

Make sure you use form validation when submitting form in codeigniter on controller.

From this php user guide here http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.post.php

Example on your input would be like person[0][first_name]

<form action="" method="">
    <input type="text" name="data_posts[0][menu_name]" placeholder="Enter menu Name">
    <input type="text" name="data_posts[0][price]"  placeholder="">
</form>

Model

<?php

class Model_something extends CI_Model {

public function add_menu() {
    $data_posts = $this->input->post('data_posts');

    foreach ($data_posts as $data_post) {
        $data = array(
            'email' => $this->session->userdata('email'),
            'menu_name' => $data_post['menu_name'],
            'price' => $data_post['price']
        );

        $this->db->insert('tablename', $data);
    }
}

}

Controller

<?php 

class Add_menu extends CI_Controller {

    public function index() {
        $this->load->helper('form');
        $this->load->helper('url');
        $this->load->library('form_validation');

        $data_posts = $this->input->post('data_posts');

        foreach ($data_posts as $data_post) {
            $this->form_validation->set_rules('data_posts['.$data_post.'][menu_name]', 'Menu Name', 'required');
            $this->form_validation->set_rules('data_posts['.$data_post.'][price]', 'Price', 'required');
        }

        if ($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE) {
            $this->load->view('some_view');
        } else {
            $this->load->model('model_something');
            $this->model_something->add_menu();
            redirect('to_success_page');
        }
    }
}

You could also check if has been inserted by using callback function

Codeigniter 3 user guide form validation http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/form_validation.html

Codeigniter 2 user guide form validation http://www.codeigniter.com/userguide2/libraries/form_validation.html

Also you should upgrade to the new bootstrap I see your using old version.

codeigniter form not submitting data

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