Storing multiple inputs with the same name in a CodeIgniter session
- by Joshua Cody
I've posted this in the CodeIgniter forum and exhausted the forum search engine as well, so apologies if cross-posting is frowned upon.
Essentially, I've got a single input, set up as <input type="text" name="goal">. At a user's request, they may add another goal, which throws a duplicate to the DOM. What I need to do is grab these values in my CodeIgniter controller and store them in a session variable. My controller is currently constructed thusly:
function goalsAdd(){
$meeting_title = $this->input->post('topic');
$meeting_hours = $this->input->post('hours');
$meeting_minutes = $this->input->post('minutes');
$meeting_goals = $this->input->post('goal');
$meeting_time = $meeting_hours . ":" . $meeting_minutes;
$sessionData = array(
'totaltime' => $meeting_time,
'title' => $meeting_title,
'goals' => $meeting_goals
);
$this->session->set_userdata($sessionData);
$this->load->view('test', $sessionData);
}
Currently, obviously, my controller gets the value of each input, writing over previous values in its wake, leaving only a string of the final value. I need to store these, however, so I can print them on a subsequent page.
What I imagine I'd love to do is extend the input class to be able to call $this-input-posts('goal'). Eventually I will need to store other arrays to session values. But I'm totally open to implementation suggestion.
Thanks so much for any help you can give.
