[eluser]beemr[/eluser]
[quote author="trs21219" date="1220480043"]... so i was thinking it was a session problem with a session not being created so the errors had no where to save to.[/quote]
The Validation class doesn't report errors to the session's flashdata. There are specific functions that belong in your view for either an error summary or a message for each erroneous field (check out the user guide). Flashdata is for passing messages between URI's. Validation is essentially a reload upon fail and a redirect upon success.