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Nathan_Sharktek
Nathan_Sharktek

Reputation: 407

PHP Post Form Accepting Only One Character -- PHP CodeIgniter MVC

I was hoping for another set of eyes on my code as I cannot figure out why my post data is only accepting the first character of the input field.

Here is my view:

<form id="SearchTerm" accept-charset="utf-8" method="post" action="<?php echo site_url("record/search/"); ?>">
    <input name="SearchTerm" type="text"> | <input type="submit">
  </form>

And my controller:

public function search($SearchTerm = 0)
{   
    // Set Session Varaible
    $CompanyId = $this->session->userdata('CompanyId');     

    $p_data = $this->input->post('SearchTerm');
    if($p_data) {
        $SearchTerm = $p_data['SearchTerm'];
    } else {
        $SearchTerm = '0';
    }

    var_dump($SearchTerm);

When I dump the $SearchTerm, only the first character of the input field is being caught. Do you pro coders have any suggestions?

Thank you in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 149

Answers (1)

John Conde
John Conde

Reputation: 219884

$p_data = $this->input->post('SearchTerm'); gets you the value of $_POST['SearchTerm']. So calling $SearchTerm = $p_data['SearchTerm']; is unnecessary and probably what is causing your issue.

$p_data = $this->input->post('SearchTerm');
if(!$p_data) {
    $SearchTerm = '0';
}

But the last if statement is probably unnecessary as well since $this->input->post('SearchTerm') will return false if $_POST['SearchTerm'] is empty.

Upvotes: 2

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