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Reset of Validation possible? - El Forum - 10-11-2007
[eluser]esbium[/eluser]
Hey everyone,
I have a form that submits to a controller, gets validated and then inserts the data into the database. All of that works fine. However, once all of that is done, I want to re-display the same form so the user can enter another record. When I do this, the old values from the last submit remain in the form. I do not want to use a redirect here.
I have tried creating a new instance of CI_Validation after a successful submit in hopes that it would reset all the values that were stored in it but that doesn't work.
Basically, the calls to $validation->someFormField return the last value from the submit. I know that this is great when there are errors, but I need to clear them if there are no errors!
Please help and thanks in advance!
Reset of Validation possible? - El Forum - 10-12-2007
[eluser]Luci3n[/eluser]
try sub classing the validation class
Code:
<?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
class MY_Validation extends CI_Validation {
function My_Validation()
{
parent::CI_Validation();
}
function set_default_values($data, $value = null)
{
if (is_array($data) == TRUE)
{
foreach($data as $field => $value)
{
$this->$field = $value;
$_POST[$field] = $value;
}
}
else
{
$this->$data = $value;
$_POST[$data] = $value;
}
}
}
?>for further info see this post
Reset of Validation possible? - El Forum - 11-09-2007
[eluser]Optimus Prime[/eluser]
Hi [esbium],
You can try to unset the validation:
Code:
if ($this->validation->run() == TRUE) {
//... All you code here...
//... At the end unset validation
unset($this->validation)
}This will unset the validation object, but only when validation->run() is true. In this way you can use the validation->error_string in case that validation is false.
But if you need to display default values, try the Lunic3n's method.
I hope this help you.