set_value not working?

[eluser]Henrique Luz[/eluser]
The error occurs because you're validating the data before sending them to the view for the controller.

Then the email field is always blank, and thus, the method form_validation->run always returns false.
Try something like that in your controller:

Code:

<?php
class Forgotten extends CI_Controller
{
  function Forgotten()
  {
      parent::__construct();
      $this->load->helper('form');
  }

  public function index(){
      $this->load->view('help/forgottensent_body');  
  }
  
  public function validate(){
        $this->load->library('form_validation');        
        $this->form_validation->set_rules('email', 'Email Address', 'required|valid_email');
          
      
        if($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE)
        {
            //ERROR
        }
        else{
          $this->load->view('forgottensent_body');
        }    
              
     }
}
?>

And your view:

Code:

<form action='validate' method='post'>
    Please enter your email. Your password will be sent to you.<br>
    Email Address:
    &lt;input type="text" name="email" value="" size="100" value=”&lt;?php echo set_value('email'); ?&gt;” /&gt;
    <div>
    &lt;input type="submit" value="Submit" /&gt;
    </div>
&lt;/form&gt;