CodeIgniter Redirection from form input
<p>I've never used a PHP framework, but I wanted to learn how to use one so I could more easily program for my company, so I chose CodeIgniter.</p>

<p>I am following the code igniter tutorial for a news section so I could learn how things work - but I am having some issues/questions.</p>

<p>Now, I am to the point in the tutorial that I have a form that submits and takes me to a success page. In normal PHP this is where I would just redirect the page to the view page of the news item submitted. In CodeIgniter I have a view function in my controller here</p>

<pre><code>        public function view($slug = NULL)
        {
                $data['news_item'] = $this-&gt;news_model-&gt;get_news($slug);

                if (empty($data['news_item']))
                {
                        show_404();
                }

                $data['title'] = $data['news_item']['title'];

                $this-&gt;load-&gt;view('templates/header', $data);
                $this-&gt;load-&gt;view('news/view', $data);
                $this-&gt;load-&gt;view('templates/footer');
        }
</code></pre>

<p>I'm not sure how to get the slug from the form when it is submitted.</p>

<p>Here is my create function (Basically the one that inserts the database info and redirects to <code>news/success</code>)</p>

<pre><code>        public function create()
        {
            $this-&gt;load-&gt;helper('form');
            $this-&gt;load-&gt;library('form_validation');

            $data['title'] = 'Create a news item';

            $this-&gt;form_validation-&gt;set_rules('title', 'Title', 'required');
            $this-&gt;form_validation-&gt;set_rules('text', 'Text', 'required');

            if ($this-&gt;form_validation-&gt;run() === FALSE)
            {
                $this-&gt;load-&gt;view('templates/header', $data);
                $this-&gt;load-&gt;view('news/create');
                $this-&gt;load-&gt;view('templates/footer');

            }
            else
            {
                $this-&gt;news_model-&gt;set_news();
                $this-&gt;load-&gt;view('news/success');
            }
        }
</code></pre>

<p>But I want this to redirect to the view page. To do that I need to have the slug I believe. So it should redirect to <code>news/view/$slug</code> - but I'm not sure how to do this.</p>

<p>My set_news model:</p>

<pre><code>        public function set_news()
        {
            $this-&gt;load-&gt;helper('url');

            $slug = url_title($this-&gt;input-&gt;post('title'), 'dash', TRUE);

            $data = array(
                'title' =&gt; $this-&gt;input-&gt;post('title'),
                'slug' =&gt; $slug,
                'text' =&gt; $this-&gt;input-&gt;post('text')
            );

            return $this-&gt;db-&gt;insert('news', $data);
        }
</code></pre>