CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook

Editing users

You will always need some method to edit users yourself from within an application. In this section, we will look at creating functionality to do just that: to update and edit user details.

How to do it...

We'll need to create one file:

• path/to/codeigniter/application/views/users/edit_user.php

And amend the following two files:

• path/to/codeigniter/application/controllers/users.php
• path/to/codeigniter/application/models/users_model.php

1. Copy the following code to the, path/to/codeigniter/application/views/users/edit_user.php file:

   <?php echo form_open('users/edit_user') ; ?> <?php if (validation_errors()) : ?> <h3>Whoops! There was an error:</h3> <p><?php echo validation_errors(); ?></p> <?php endif; ?> <table border="0" > <tr> <td>User First ...