Form validation error message issues

[eluser]RalphLeMouf[/eluser]
makes wonderful sense. I'm gonna give it a go. My one question is when you are telling me to "create my own error messages". Are you saying stray beyond code-igniters form_error() and make my own custom PHP error message system? Or would it be something like

Code:

else
   {
    $this->form_error();
   }