want to pass the post value in to controller - codeigniter

Question

Here am having the code like this
<div class="form-group">
<label class="col-lg-3 control-label">Start Date</label>
<div class="col-lg-5">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" required name="attendance_date" id="attendance_date" class="form-control datepicker" value="<?php echo date('Y-m-d');?>" data-date-format="<?= config_item('date_picker_format'); ?>" required>
<div class="input-group-addon">
<i class="fa fa-calendar"></i>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<a data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal" type="button" name="update" href="<?php echo base_url();?>admin/attendance_confirmation/reject1/<?php echo $this->input->post('attendance_date');?>" id="update1" value="Reject" class="btn btn-danger ml" ><i class="fa fa-times"></i> <?= lang('reject') ?></a>
and my controller looks like this
public function reject1($date)
{
$data['date']=$date;
var_dump($data['date']);
$data['modal_subview'] = $this->load->view('admin/engineer_attendance_confirmation/attendance_confirmation_modal',$data,FALSE);
$this->load->view('admin/_layout_modal', $data);
}
but the value in the attendance_date is not getting in controller.how can we pass the value in the post to the controller using href tag

Answer 1

In CodeIgniter, POST data isn't passed through as variables into the controller function. You'd instead need to use the input library. You can then use $this->input->post() to get POST data:
$data['date'] = $this->input->post('attendance_date');

Answer 2

Using href tag you don't get data in the post, but you can get the data using a segment like this:
public function reject1()
{
$data['date']=$this->uri->segment(3);
var_dump($data['date']);
$data['modal_subview'] = $this->load->view('admin/engineer_attendance_confirmation/attendance_confirmation_modal',$data,FALSE);
$this->load->view('admin/_layout_modal', $data);
}