Announcing Bonfire - A jumpstart for your web apps

[eluser]theprodigy[/eluser]
Another thing I noticed:
Your code in the tutorial is passing the $_POST array, and using it to insert into the db. Nothing you do while using form_validation is being done other than required.

Code:

public function index()
  {
      if ($this->input->post('submit'))
      {
          if ($this->create_item($_POST)) // <-- passing $_POST array
          {
              Template::set_message('New ToDo item successfully created', 'success');
          }
          else
          {
              Template::set_message('Error creating new ToDo item.', 'error');
          }
      }

      Template::render();
  }

  //--------------------------------------------------------------------

  private function create_item($vars) // $_POST array
  {
      $this->form_validation->set_rules('description', 'Description', 'required|trim|strip_tags|max_length[255]|xss_clean'); // xss_clean and strip_tags all you want, you're inserting from $_POST, not $this->input->post.

      if ($this->form_validation->run() !== false)
      {
          $data = array(
              'description'   => $vars['description'] // $_POST array
          );

          return $this->todo_model->insert($data);
      }

      return false;
  }

  //--------------------------------------------------------------------