CodeIgniter $this->input->get() not working

Question

I'm not sure why this is not working. I have allow_get_array = TRUE in the config file. Here's what I am trying to do..

This is the link that the user will click from their email

http://www.site.com/confirm?code=f8c53b1578f7c05471d087f18b343af0c3a638

confirm.php Controller:

$code = $this->input->get('code');

also tried

$code = $this->input->get('code', TRUE);

Any ideas?

Look at that here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2043070/enabling-get-in-codeigniter — Darin Kolev, Dec 26 '12 at 22:18
@darin-kolev When I change to PATH_INFO my views load into each other...have no clue why — KraigBalla, Dec 26 '12 at 22:33
Have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2043070/enabling-get-in-codeigniter?lq=1 — Simon, Dec 26 '12 at 22:43

PhearOfRayne · Answer 1 · 2012-12-26T22:47:06.357

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In your config.php change the following:

$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';
$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%.:_\-';
$config['enable_query_strings'] = FALSE;

To:

$config['uri_protocol'] = 'REQUEST_URI';
$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%.:_\-?';
$config['enable_query_strings'] = TRUE;

Instead of messing with Query Strings you could change your URI to use segments like http://www.site.com/confirm/code/f8c53b1578f7c05471d087f18b343af0c3a638. To access the code segment you would use $this->uri->segment(3);. Personally I prefer this way as to using Query Strings. See URI Class

edited Dec 26 '12 at 22:47

answered Dec 26 '12 at 22:17

PhearOfRayne

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@KraigBalla Take a look at my updated answer, I always seem to have better luck when I use `REQUEST_URI` instead of `AUTO`, also I added a quick suggestion for how I would go about this using URI segments. – PhearOfRayne Dec 26 '12 at 22:49
With this approach you can put the application in risk, because you're breaking routing rules. – Silvio Delgado Sep 21 '17 at 22:26

Silvio Delgado · Answer 2 · 2017-09-21T22:25:21.617

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Use this:

$code = isset($_REQUEST['code']) ? $_REQUEST['code'] : NULL;

EDIT:

In PHP >=7.0, you can do this:

$code = $_REQUEST['code'] ?? NULL;

edited Sep 21 '17 at 22:25

answered Aug 02 '14 at 20:45

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score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 27 '12 at 01:14

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I did this and it worked without having to change the config file:

//put some vars back into $_GET.
parse_str(substr(strrchr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "?"), 1), $_GET);

// grab values as you would from an ordinary $_GET superglobal array associative index.
$code = $_GET['code'];

answered Dec 27 '12 at 01:14

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@CollinsAbitekaniza, but it is codeigniter method, and it doesn't clean XSS – Xylian Jun 03 '19 at 06:18

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 26 '12 at 23:08

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can you please try

http://www.site.com/confirm/?code=f8c53b1578f7c05471d087f18b343af0c3a638

instead of

http://www.site.com/confirm?code=f8c53b1578f7c05471d087f18b343af0c3a638

without any config or else edit please

answered Dec 26 '12 at 23:08

itsme

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CodeIgniter $this->input->get() not working

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