Form Validation: return calues for rules?

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Form Validation: return calues for rules? - El Forum - 07-05-2011

[eluser]mindph[/eluser]
Hi

Is it possible somehow, to have the form validator return which rule was failing validation?

The purpose why I could need this is simply: I dont want to display only the errors, but also hilight the field what failed validation.
So that I could get something like

Code:
if($this->form_validation->rule('firstName') == FALSE){

 $formData['firstName'] = array('style' => 'background-color: red');

}

I am not sure if you get what I mean... oO

Form Validation: return calues for rules? - El Forum - 07-05-2011

[eluser]misplacedme[/eluser]
Check out the section labeled "Showing Errors Individually" in the form validation page.

Code:
<h5>Username</h5>

&lt;?php echo form_error('username'); ?&gt;

&lt;input type="text" name="username" value="&lt;?php echo set_value('username'); ?&gt;" size="50" /&gt;

Form Validation: return calues for rules? - El Forum - 07-05-2011

[eluser]mindph[/eluser]
Okay thanks that looks cool.

Gonna like CI!

Form Validation: return calues for rules? - El Forum - 07-06-2011

[eluser]mindph[/eluser]
BTW The userguide tells me only about these values to set in an array.

Code:
$data = array(

              'name'        => 'username',

              'id'          => 'username',

              'value'       => 'johndoe',

              'maxlength'   => '100',

              'size'        => '50',

              'style'       => 'width:50%',

            );

echo form_input($data);

But class is also possible

Code:
'class' => 'classname'

Could be told in the User Guide too.