Redux Authentication 1.4a (24th July 2008)

[eluser]thesf[/eluser]
Hey dudes, I'm extremely new to CI and have taken a liking to it very quickly. I've started building myself an app and decided on using redux_auth. Unfortunately, I've hit a bump and can't quite seem to figure it out. I may be missing something completely so any help is appreciated. The problem I have is this...

When logging in the user controller first checks to make sure that the validation rules have been satisfied and then it checks the email and password against the database in redux_auth->login. I've been testing my redux_auth implementation and at this point if the input validates but does not match any database user records then then conditional statement seems to do nothing?

Code:

if($this->validation->run()) // Validation Passed
        {
            $login = $this->redux_auth->login
            (
                $this->input->post('email'),
                $this->input->post('password')
            );
            
            $var = ($login) ? redirect('') : 'false';
        }
        else // Validation Failed

The line starting with $var will redirect if the redux_auth->login returns true but does nothing if it returns false and I am presented with a blank page because the views are only loaded if the initial validation failed. This can't be right can it? Or am I missing something important here?

Thanks,
Ash