I am using CodeIgniter and I have two different controllers - login.php and site.php
In login.php
function credentials(){
$user = $this->input->post('username');
// there is some code here
}
In site.php, I have function members_area() I need to pass the variable $user from login.php to site.php. How do I do this ?
Thanks
If you are talking about user logins here.. In your Login controller you verify user credentials. If so then you need to set a session variable
$this->sessions->set_userdata('user_id',$user_id);
redirect('site/members_area');
Then in your Site controller you retrieve the data for that user from DB.
$current_user = $this->sessions->userdata('user_id');
And you get your required data from DB.
just take a redirect to site/members_area/$user and you'll get $user parameter in the function members_area($user)
Turns out that a controller is used to control what is sent to a view. If the design is right you're not really supposed to send data between two controllers.
I sent inserted the value of username into a session.
So, In login.php
$this->session->set_userdata($data);
and retrieved the value in site.php
$data['userid'] = $this->session->userdata('username');
$this->load->view('members_area' , $data); //send the info to the controller
if you want some common functions in two controller put it in a helper file