EE2.x how do I send a response when a form is posted?

TKoorn, moving to Modules forum.

Hi Tkorrn

Are you using CI’s validation class? If so you can send back to the form using it’s build in validate functions. Note: You can’t use the redirect, you need to post to the same page you have your form at (ie. index.php/template_group/template/)

I have a smiliuar thread just below yours asking about what happens after an action is executed. I don’t think you can return anything so you need to make a redirect() or if theres a way to communicate to the templates instead of doing a page reload via redirect()

I just found that I can use the output class to send error messages so maybe that that class can do some other things too. I’ll check out CI’s form validator too. Thanks for the tip.

Ah it was very easy, I can just use

$this->EE->output->set_output($data);

And send stuff back to the browser.

Maybe I should use this:

$this->EE->load->view('file_name', $data, true/false);

Or maybe there is a EE way of getting a template to be outputted.

Can you output the templates from within the EE template-manager?

EE->output just outputs what you send it raw… or?

Yes, which is great for me because I just want to output a tiny bit of javascript.

If you want a template then I think that if you put this in your method:

$this->EE->load->helper('url');
redirect('/group/template/');

You might just get a nice and parsed template 😊 I can’t try it now, but I will in the morning.

Yeah the redirect is working, problem with that is your forcing a page reload which isn’t working with the form validation class if in use.

I would like to do something similuar to the load->view() but for EE’s internal templates in the template-manager. Let me know if you find anything 😊

Thanks