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08-06-2008, 06:55 AM

[eluser]Bramme[/eluser]
After using CI for about 4 months or so, today I figured something silly out and I wished I learned about it a lot earlier.

When working with forms and validation, most of the time, I just return to the original form (when the form is succesfully submitted) but display an additional line.

Code:
if ($this->db->insert()) $msg = 'success!';

My views often looked like this then

Code:
&lt;form action="/admin/news/new_item" method="post"&gt;

&lt;?=$this->validation->error_string?&gt;

&lt;? if (isset($msg)) echo $msg; ?&gt;

Today I realised, since CI is also php 4 compatible there's no difference between public and private vars (or functions for that matter), so I could perfectly well use

Code:
if ($this->db->insert()) $this->validation->error_string = 'success!';

This means I don't have to add that extra lines in my view, which is a lot cleaner and the whole practice is imo semantically correcter.

The only thing I'm annoyed by now is the error_string term... I'd rather see smth like feedback_string, but that's only a small thing.

I just wanted to post this and hope it would get documented, that way other people might be helped earlier by it.