Re-populating the form field with the submitted data using form validation with array as the name doesn't work !!

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Re-populating the form field with the submitted data using form validation with array as the name doesn't work !! - El Forum - 02-17-2010

[eluser]didit[/eluser]
hi all,
need your help Big Grin

can the form_validation handle the form like this?? and how??

here my form

Code:
&lt;form&gt;

  Employee 1 : &lt;input type="text" name="employee[]" value="&lt;?php set_value('employee[]');?&gt;"&gt;

  Employee 2 : &lt;input type="text" name="employee[]" value="&lt;?php set_value('employee[]');?&gt;"&gt;

  &lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="Save"&gt;

&lt;/form&gt;

many thanks

Re-populating the form field with the submitted data using form validation with array as the name doesn't work !! - El Forum - 02-17-2010

[eluser]kirkaracha[/eluser]
The form validation class is supposed to handle this, but it's buggy. You might be able to work around it.