Codeigniter when to use redirect() and when to use $this->load->view

php codeigniter http-redirect
T-Wrecks picture T-Wrecks · Nov 26, 2010 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

I am fairly new to Codeigniter and I am wondering on some Codeigniter best practices. When should i use redirect() versus using

$this->load->view

It seems that when I use redirect() then $this->session->set_flashdata works like it should but when i use 

$this->load->view

the message is displayed after an additional request.

Answer

fred picture fred · Nov 26, 2010

I think you really answered your own question.

Use redirect() when a simple flash message at the top of another page is an appropriate response, use $this->load->view() when you're providing an entire page worth of feedback for whatever the incoming request may be.

So for example, when a new user signs up the "Success" page would be a loaded view and perhaps when a user edits something in their account a flash message "Changes saved" or soemthing similar on the same page is sufficient.

Related questions

Fatal Error: Allowed Memory Size of 134217728 Bytes Exhausted (CodeIgniter + XML-RPC)

I have a bunch of client point of sale (POS) systems that periodically send new sales data to one centralized database, which stores the data into one big database for report generation. The client POS is based on PHPPOS, and …

Read More
CodeIgniter removing index.php from url

My current urls look like this [mysite]index.php/[rest of the slug]. I want to strip index.php from these urls. mod_rewrite is enabled on my apache2 server. In config, $config['index_page'] = ''; My codeignitor root .htaccess …

Read More
Redirect with CodeIgniter

Can anyone tell me why my redirect helper does not work the way I'd expect it to? I'm trying to redirect to the index method of my main controller, but it takes me www.mysite.com/index/provider1/ when it …

Read More