title: $_POST and $this->input->post() are empty
body: <p>i have a problem with passing POST data. when i check the post data with firebug the data is there. but when i check it in my controller there is nothing.</p>
  
  <p>this is my form:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form action="&lt;?php echo base_url(); ?&gt;cms/activiteit/saveAct" method="post"&gt;
      &lt;div class="row"&gt;
          &lt;div class="col-md-3"&gt;Titel:&lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;input class="col-md-9" type="text" name="title" id="title"/&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div class="row"&gt;
          &lt;div class="col-md-3"&gt;Datum:&lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;input class="col-md-9" type="date" name="date" id="date"/&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div class="row"&gt;
          &lt;div class="col-md-3"&gt;Korte beschrijving:&lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;input class="col-md-9" type="text" name="short" id="short"/&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div class="row"&gt;
          &lt;div class="col-md-3"&gt;Lange beschrijving:&lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;textarea class="col-md-9" name="long" id="long"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div class="row"&gt;
          &lt;div class="col-md-12 spatie"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div class="row"&gt;
          &lt;input type="submit" class="col-md-9 col-md-offset-3 btn btn-info" value="Opslaan"/&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in my controller i have this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public function saveAct()
  {
          $this-&gt;output-&gt;enable_profiler();
          echo 'title: ' . $this-&gt;input-&gt;post('title');
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ivGkv.png" alt="in this picture is the output of the saveAct controller part">
  i read somewhere that this could be my htacces file.</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule ^(application) - [F,L]
  RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets/|assets/bootstrap/|assets/CSS/|assets/font/|assets/font-awesome/|assets/img/|assets/javascript/|assets/JQuery/|cms/|cms/bootstrap/|cms/CSS/|cms/font-awesome/|cms/img/|cms/javascript/|cms/JQuery/|public/)
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>thanks for the help.</p>