Updated the post method and added the new functionality to the get method also

Updated the documentation

3 files changed, 38 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/system/core/Input.php b/system/core/Input.php
index fa8080deb..1be591508 100644
--- a/system/core/Input.php
+++ b/system/core/Input.php
@@ -111,6 +111,22 @@ class CI_Input {
 	*/
 	function get($index = '', $xss_clean = FALSE)
 	{
+		// check if a field has been entered
+		if( empty($index) AND is_array($_GET) AND count($_GET) )
+		{
+			// no field entered - return all fields
+
+			$all_get_fields = array();
+
+			// loop through the full _GET array
+			foreach( $_GET as $key )
+			{
+				$all_get_fields[$key] = $this->_fetch_from_array($_GET, $key, $xss_clean);
+			}
+			return $all_get_fields;
+
+		}
+
 		return $this->_fetch_from_array($_GET, $index, $xss_clean);
 	}
 
@@ -127,7 +143,7 @@ class CI_Input {
 	function post($index = '', $xss_clean = FALSE)
 	{
 		// check if a field has been entered
-		if( empty($index ) )
+		if( empty($index) AND is_array($_POST) AND count($_POST) )
 		{
 			// no field entered - return all fields
 
diff --git a/user_guide/changelog.html b/user_guide/changelog.html
index 35187efda..92513e6d6 100644
--- a/user_guide/changelog.html
+++ b/user_guide/changelog.html
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ Hg Tag: v2.0.0</p>
 			<li>Altered Email Library to allow for method chaining.</li>
 			<li>Added <kbd>request_headers()</kbd>, <kbd>get_request_header()</kbd> and <kbd>is_ajax_request()</kbd> to the input class.</li>
 			<li class="reactor">Altered <a href="libraries/user_agent.html">User agent library</a> so that <kbd>is_browser()</kbd>, <kbd>is_mobile()</kbd> and <kbd>is_robot()</kbd> can optionally check for a specific browser or mobile device.</li>
+			<li class="reactor">Altered <a href="libraries/input.html">Input library</a> so that <kbd>post()</kbd> and <kbd>get()</kbd> will return all POST and GET items (respectively) if there are no parameters passed in.</li>
 		</ul>
 	</li>
 	<li>Database
diff --git a/user_guide/libraries/input.html b/user_guide/libraries/input.html
index 552c49afd..4faecd768 100644
--- a/user_guide/libraries/input.html
+++ b/user_guide/libraries/input.html
@@ -132,12 +132,32 @@ else<br />
 
 <code>$this->input->post('some_data', TRUE);</code>
 
+<p>To return an array of all POST items call without any parameters.</p>
+<p>To return all POST items and pass them through the XSS filter leave the first parameter blank while setting the second parameter to boolean;</p>
+<p>The function returns FALSE (boolean) if there are no items in the POST.</p>
+
+<code>
+	$this->input->post(); // returns all POST items with XSS filter
+	<br />
+	$this->input->post('', FALSE); // returns all POST items without XSS
+</code>
+
 <h2>$this->input->get()</h2>
 
 <p>This function is identical to the post function, only it fetches get data:</p>
 
 <code>$this->input->get('some_data', TRUE);</code>
 
+<p>To return an array of all GET items call without any parameters.</p>
+<p>To return all GET items and pass them through the XSS filter leave the first parameter blank while setting the second parameter to boolean;</p>
+<p>The function returns FALSE (boolean) if there are no items in the GET.</p>
+
+<code>
+	$this->input->get(); // returns all GET items with XSS filter
+	<br />
+	$this->input->get('', FALSE); // returns all GET items without XSS filtering
+</code>
+
 <h2>$this->input->get_post()</h2>
 
 <p>This function will search through both the post and get streams for data, looking first in post, and then in get:</p>