Is it possible to get all post variables in ExpressionEngine, like you could in CodeIgniter?

Question

In a controller in CI you could get all post variables by doing something like this:

$data = $this->input->post();

In EE (built off of CI by the same people) the analogous syntax would be:

$data = $this->EE->input->post();

The only issue is that instead of an array with all of the data, you get a boolean of false.

Is there some way of getting an array of all post data, using ExpressionEngine rather than the POST superglobal?

Thanks.

Raine

If you have the source code, read it from there. It was not mentioned in the documentation and I don't know where to get the source from. – Monomania

Thanks. There was a solution that I just kind of winged: foreach($_POST as $key => $value){ $data[$key] = $this->EE->input->post($key); } This works fine, for anyone who finds value in this question – Raine

@Mike_K, post your solution as an answer and accept that answer. – Generalissimo

Answer 1

Ok, the way to get results similar to CI within EE for all elements of a POST, while still leveraging the security features of EE is the following:

foreach($_POST as $key => $value){
     $data[$key] = $this->EE->input->post($key);
}

Since you can access POST vars by name, looping through them in $_POST, then explicitly calling each will yield the desired result.

Raine

Answer 2

Try native

$this->input->post(NULL, TRUE); // returns all POST items with XSS filter 
$this->input->post(); // returns all POST items without XSS filter

Ref: https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/input.html

Leund