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sanrodari
sanrodari

Reputation: 1632

How to pass several values in a single post parameter in CodeIgniter?

I'm using the chosen UI library to select multiple values for a post param named 'tables'. In the Chrome network console I can check that is working how I expected:

Form data
checkin:2012-06-15 16:00:00
checkout:2012-06-15 17:00:00
tables:14
tables:15
tables:16
customer:28

But when I try to recover this tables info in the controller

var_dump($this->input->post('tables'));

I only got the last value for the param:

string(2) "16"

I also try var_dump($_POST['tables']); when the same result.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2120

Answers (3)

The Alpha
The Alpha

Reputation: 146219

Just an example of how to pass an array to server from html form

HTML

<form>
    <input name="tables[]" value="value1" />
    <input name="tables[]" value="value2" />
    ....
</form>

PHP (codeigniter)

$tables_array=$this->input->post('tables'); // an array with all values of tables[] input/item of form

if you print_r($tables_array); then the output will be

Array ( [0] => value1 [1] => value2 )

Upvotes: 3

demize
demize

Reputation: 364

I don't have any experience with CodeIgniter, but the basic solution you're looking for is either to make an array and pass that (if CodeIgniter has a function for passing an array in POST that would be best, otherwise make a function that appends the values and delimits them with a comma or semicolon and another function to interpret that on the other end) or to pass, say "tables1:14", "tables2:15", "tables3:16" and then process them once you receive them. I think the array would probably be the best way, personally, but you may have a reason to use the second method.

Upvotes: 0

p.g.l.hall
p.g.l.hall

Reputation: 1961

Try calling it tables[] instead of tables.

Upvotes: 5

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