CodeIgniter Registration Form Part 1

This is Part 1 of what will probably end up as at least 3 parts on creating a User Registration form in CodeIgniter. It shows CodeIgniter features such as form validation, form helpers etc.
This particular video shows the making of a form using the CodeIgniter Form Helper.

CodeIgniter can be found at http://www.codeigniter.com

More CodeIgniter tutorials, all in one place, at http://www.simplycodeigniter.com.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Form Helper
• URL Helper

[JABevan]

Hi, thanks for your series. I've begun working through them and have run into some early trouble. Is there anything in the 2.1.0 release that would affect this tutorial?

[Verbloten]

@JABevan Hi mate - yes there is... The way models and controllers are declared has changed slightly. Also the constructor is slightly different. Have a read of this codeigniter [dot] com/user_guide/installation/up­grade_200.html to see what you need to do differently...

[JABevan]

@Verbloten Thanks man. I was able to make the updates; however, now I'm receiving the same error @lyndr29 received below:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined property: User::$view_data

Filename: controllers/user.php

I've checked and checked my code, watched you previous tutorials, and can't seem to find the error.

[Verbloten]

@JABevan Dunno mate? You can shoot me through your code if you like and I will give it a once over... Send it to my email address or via the contact form on simplycodeigniter site

[TheUfonautas]

Hey, i'm trying to learn using Ci, but i have one problem Call to undefined function base_url() in MyHost/Ci/application/controll­ers/user.php on line 8

( i wrote url and form to autoload, but nothing changes ) Any ideas? :)

And, thanks for the tutorials :)

[Verbloten]

@TheUfonautas Hi mate - sorry I missed your question sooner! You need to autoload the "url" helper.

Rather than use $this->['base_url'] = base_url() in your constructor... I tend to just use base_url() when I need it now rather than sending it through to the view as a variable. Also see Gerrrrrrrry's comment below - you don't need it in anchor tags ie; echo anchor('controller/function', 'title', array('properties')) is sufficient...

[CrimsonBeer]

Congratulations Al, this is a great set of tutorials. I have never used CodeIgniter but am considering it and you have increased my confidence!

[raffkm]

great tutorials man, I am acutally learning CI now, so this is a great resource. Thanks!!

[JABevan]

@Verbloten

I have this on line 9: $this->view_data['base_url'] = base_url();

...and this on line 21: $this->load->view('view_regist­er', $this->view_data);

[TheOddSeed]

Excellet demonstration/tutorial!

[StevenSokulski]

I think it'd be great if you could put the version of CodeIgniter in the description so that things are a little bit future-proofed. I know that the video tutorials on the CI website are considered deprecated, but the lessons are still valid. Same could be said for you videos once CI has progressed further, I think.

Thanks for the videos! Really great!

[TheUfonautas]

@Verbloten Thank, thank, thank you!!