DataMapper, Validation, Crud issues

[eluser]whoisinkus[/eluser]
[quote author="freshfutures" date="1310442640"]Hi,
1) I'm trying to display form validation errors when a form has been submitted. The validation is done in the model, however I'm not getting proper error strings like 'Name' is a required field, instead I get just 'required'.
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I found that the datamapper_lang file lacked a 'required' entry, I added one like this on line 16:

Code:

$lang['required']    = 'The %s field is required.';

And that resolved the 'required' validation issue.

[quote author="freshfutures" date="1310442640"]Hi,
2) I’m stumped as to how I can repopulate the form fields a user has filled in when the page is reloaded after validation fails.
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I've found that just using the form_value() function still works while using Datamapper validation. Are you getting different results?

The site I'm working on is using CI 1.7 and I realize you're using 2, so perhaps that has something to do w/ it, but thought I throw that out there and see if it got you anywhere.