simple error question

[eluser]RyanH[/eluser]
I'm having a similar issue. I have a registration page that has validation and it's something like this:

Code:

<input type="text" name="name" value="<?=$this->validation->name;?>" /> <?=$this->validation->name_error;?>

On my registration page this works fine. No errors, it's all submitted and everything works fine. However I created a simple contact page with essentially the same code (instead of being submitted to a database it sends an email instead) and I get the following error:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined property: CI_Validation::$name

Filename: views/someview.php

As with the registration page that works just fine, the rules are set as are the fields. Why would this work on one page and not the other?