Validation fails to fill form elements or error message.

[eluser]valarkin[/eluser]
There are no "errors" so to speak. The problem is that the validation data is not getting to the view. From what I have seen, I don't need to explicitly pass the validation data to the view. The validation library should have the data accessible through $this->validation->{variable}. However, this is not happening. $this->validation->{variable} is returning nil when called from the 'parties_birthday_reservation' view.