[eluser]dmorin[/eluser]
This may seem basic, but what is the best way to initially populate an 'edit' type from with values from the database?
Passing them in as a second parameter to set_value seems like one approach, but if you use the same view for both create and edit, you have to do checks and it gets really ugly. It's even worse for set_select function.
In the old validation library, I would have just forced the values into the validation library using $this->validation->field_name = value, but the new one stores these in an array and it seems really hacky to force the values into there. What is everyone doing for this?
