CodeIgniter’s Form Helper doesn’t respect POST arrays

I’ve been working on my first ‘proper’ CodeIgniter project this week. It’s been quite gruelling, as there are some moments where I have definitely sped up my production. But it’s constantly getting hampered by the learning curve. It may be slight, but is frustrating when I hit a wall.

One issue that just cam up is that I want to send multi-dimensional post data to the set_value function in the Form Helper. As you’re passing a string, the array is completely disregarded, and you’re left with nothing.

I’ve created an extension to the helper to temporarily get around the problem until I can look at it and fix it properly:

MY_form_helper.php

set_value($field, $default));
	}
}

?>

This sets a second parameter as the array index. This way, you should be able to access form elements sent into the POST array as arrays themselves.

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