form text field: treat default value as empty

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form text field: treat default value as empty - El Forum - 09-06-2012

[eluser]SolarisDev[/eluser]
Hello Community,
I'm new to CodeIgniter and I have very simple problem. I have form field:

Code:
form_input("name", set_value("name", "New Category Name")

we have text field with value New Category name, now I neeed in validation to check that value is not empty but it shoul;d not be default value as well. In plain PHP I would do:

Code:
if($name == '' || $name == "New Category Name")

{

    return false;

}

How do I achieve that in CI, I have in controller function:

Code:
$this->form_validation->set_rules("name", "Category Name", "trim|required");

but that will just check if field is empty.

Thanks

form text field: treat default value as empty - El Forum - 09-06-2012

[eluser]siptik[/eluser]
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/form_validation.html#callbacks
helped you?

form text field: treat default value as empty - El Forum - 09-06-2012

[eluser]SolarisDev[/eluser]
yes it is, thanks a lot, I was looking in user guide but I probably didn't look enough.

Thanks