Pass Data from Controller to Model Codeigniter

Question

controller

  <?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

    class Upload extends CI_Controller {

            function __construct(){
                parent::__construct();
                $this->load->helper(array('form', 'url'));
            }

            function index()
            {
                $this->load->view('uploaderview', array('error' => ' ' ));
            }

            function do_upload(){
                $config['upload_path'] = './upl0d/';
                $config['allowed_types'] = 'gif|jpg|png';
                $config['max_size'] = '2048'; //2mb
                $config['max_width']  = '1024';
                $config['max_height']  = '768';
                $config['encrypt_name'] = FALSE;
                $config['overwrite'] = FALSE;

                $this->load->library('upload', $config);

                if ( ! $this->upload->do_upload()){
                    $error = array('error' => $this->upload->display_errors());
                    $this->load->view('uploaderview', $error);
                }
                else{
                    ## Insert into filesystem.
                    $data = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());
                    ## load the success page.
                    $this->load->view('uploadsuccess', $data);
                    ## Insert into db
                    ## then insert the img name into the database
                    $this->load->model('uploadermodel');
                    $this->uploadermodel->uploadcoupon();               
                }
            }
    }
    ?>

model

   <?php

    class Uploadermodel extends CI_Model{

        function __construct(){
            // Call the Model constructor
            parent::__construct();
        }

        function uploadcoupon($data){
            $uploadFileName = $this->upload->data();
            $currentDt = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
            $data = array('fileNameUploaded'=>$uploadFileName,'date'=>$currentDt);
            $this->db->insert('Coupon', $data); 
        }

    }   
    ?>

I'm trying to gather the value of $config['file_name'] and send it with my model. How do I do so? Currently it's trying to upload: VALUES (Array, '2013-02-03 20:20:01')

Answer 1

You now have an array $data with a key 'upload_data' (you don't actually need to do it this way - I wish they would fix the docs, but leave it)

So, do a var_dump($data['upload_data']) and you will see all the information about the file you just uploaded.

Going from memory, there will be something like $data['upload_data']['file_name']...

So, just pass that value plus your full insert data to your model.

$this->uploadermodel->uploadcoupon(); 

Need to have $data passed...

$this->uploadermodel->uploadcoupon($data);

don't try to grab it from $this->upload like you are doing