validation problem

[eluser]tonanbarbarian[/eluser]
yes you could do something like that
Most of the rules that you can set such as required, matches, min_length, max_length, exact_length, valid_email, valid_ip, alpha, aplha_numeric, alpha_dash and numeric are just methods of the validation class that return a boolean value

so if you wanted to test if an email address was valid for example you could

Code:

if ($this->validation->valid_email('[email protected]'))...