I'm new to CodeIgniter. I'm using Phil Sturgeon's RestServer and RestClient. I've been trying to make a POST request in my CodeIgniter RestClient controller to update data in my CodeIgniter RestServer, but it never updates data in my database. I think my POST request is not right.
Here is my RestClient POST request in controller:
$result = $this->rest->post('newscontroller/news/format/json',
array('news_id' => $news_id,
'news_title' => $news_title,
'news_category' => $news_category ),
'json');
if(isset($result->status) && $result->status == 'success')
{
$data['message'] ='News has been updated.';
$this->load->view('otherpageview',$data);
}
else
{
$data['message'] ='Something has gone wrong';
$this->load->view('otherpageview',$data);
}
It seems that $result doesn't get any value, because I did echo the $result->status and it has nothing to display. And I've also have this in this controller's constructor :
// Load the rest client spark
$this->load->spark('restclient/2.1.0');
// Load the library
$this->load->library('rest');
// Run some setup
$this->rest->initialize(array('server' => 'http://api.therestserver.com/index.php/'));
And in the RestServer's controller, which is newscontroller, has this method :
function news_post()
{
$news=array(
'news_id' => $this->post('news_id'),
'news_title' => $this->post('news_title'),
'news_category' => $this->post('news_category') );
$result = $this->News_model->UpdateNews($news);
if($result === FALSE)
{
$this->response(array('status' => 'failed'));
}
else
{
$this->response(array('status' => 'success'));
}
}
With the News_model :
public function UpdateNews($news)
{
$this->db->where('news_id',$news->news_id);
$this->db->update('news',$news);
}
I just don't know where I'm doing wrong, because I still don't understand how the POST request and method work. I've read through the tutorial in Nettuts and search about this, but still.. maybe because of my bad English reading-writing. I hope someone can help me out, any help would be appreciated. Thanks a TON! :)
Finally SOLVED this problem! It was my POST request in the RESTClient controller that is wrong. After doing some searching and lots of trying / changing the codes, this code works for me for POST request in my RESTClient controller :
$news_id = 12; //this is the id of the news that you want to edit
$method = 'post';
$params = array('news_id' => $news_id,
'news_title' => $this->input->post('news_title'),
'news_category' => $this->input->post('news_category') );
$uri = 'newscontroller/news';
$this->rest->format('application/json');
$result = $this->rest->{$method}($uri, $params);
if(isset($result->status) && $result->status == 'success')
{
$data['message'] ='News has been updated.';
$this->load->view('otherpageview',$data);
}
else
{
$data['message'] ='Something has gone wrong';
$this->load->view('otherpageview',$data);
}
With a lot of help from this reference
I post this if anybody needs an example of the right POST request in RESTClient and RESTServer, because I find it hard to look for an example for POST request in RESTClient-Server*** by Phil Sturgeon.
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