form validation question

[eluser]cideveloper[/eluser]
Another thing to deal with.

Say for example a user goes to admin/blog_write_post. They fill out the content and choose a category but forget to fill out the title. They hit submit. form validation fails and they are now redirected back to admin/blog_write_post probably with the validation error telling them title is required. With your code as it is they now have to re-select the category. It gets annoying as a user if they have to fill out stuff twice if they didn't make a mistake with that field.

Also to make your code a bit cleaner You should move this

Code:

$categories = array();
        foreach ($results AS $result) {
            $categories[$result->id] = $result->name;
        }

to the model. Then you can just do this

Code:

$data = array(
            'categories' => $this->blog_model->get_categories()
        );