Saving form data

hemingweb

Hi,

We're using the forms module and have configured the form action to post to a custom controller. The form data is used to perform some calculations. How do we then save the data to the From_entries table?

Is it possible to use the form module to save the data.

I quickly looked at writing my own function to save the data, but the form data doesn't seem to have the form name, remote_ip or is_spam parameters.

I would also need to save the additional calculated fields, which aren't part of the original form.

Regards

David

hemingweb

I've also noticed that the 'text' field type value is set to 'text', and so displays a textarea. is there some config for this in the forms module?

admin

You could do something like the following to save.
$form = $this->fuel->forms->get('my_form'); $posted = $this->input->post(); $model = $this->fuel->forms->model('form_entries'); $entry = $model->create(); $entry->url = last_url(); $entry->post = json_encode($posted); $entry->form_name = $this->name; $entry->remote_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; $entry->is_spam = ($form->is_spam($posted)) ? 'yes' : 'no'; $entry->save();
Regarding a text field type, you can specify an empty "type" value and it will be the default text box. The reason why it is a textarea is because it is assuming "text" is coming from the database field type.