Problems getting post data in codeigniter

Question

I'm having problems getting post data from my view. In my controller i currently have the following:

function update()
{
 var_dump($this->input->post('name'));
}

That returns

bool(false)

I have tried

var_dump($_POST);

but that returns an empty array

Here is my view on pastebin(I can't get the format right here)

http://pastebin.com/zJvuDRu4

Any help would be appreciated.

• ficuscr: Can you show what that markup looks like rendered? Are your values being set? Can't tell if that's a snippet of PHP, smarty, or some other framework. Fiddler can be a great tool to trouble shoot these things, and of course there is firebug... Get you past the $_POST being empty at least.

Answer 1

You forgot the attribute name

<td><input type="text" id="name" value="{name}"/></td></tr>

The correct is:

<td><input type="text" id="name" value="{name}" name="name"/></td></tr>

And the others inputs, you have to do the same.

• user798774: thanks can't belive i missed it, been banging my head against it for an hour.