Validation in autoload PHP 4 (Fix suggested)

[eluser]karloff[/eluser]
controller

Code:

function comments ()
    {
        
    $data['title'] = $this->uri->segment(3);
    $this->db->where('url_title', $this->uri->segment(3));
        $data['entriesquery'] = $this->db->get('entries');


        $this->db->where('entry_id', $this->uri->segment(3));
        $data['commentquery'] = $this->db->get('comments');

        
    $rules['author'] = "trim|required";
        $rules['email'] = "trim|required|valid_email|max_length[50]";
        $rules['body'] = "trim|required|htmlentities|max_length[2000]";
        
    $this->validation->set_rules($rules);

        $fields['author']    = 'Author';
        $fields['body']        = 'body';
        $fields['email']    = 'Email Address';

    $this->validation->set_fields($fields);
        $this->validation->set_error_delimiters('<p class="error">', '</p>');

        if ($this->validation->run() == FALSE) {
        $this->load->vars(array(
            'data' => $data,
         ));
        $this->load->view('comment_view', $data);
            
        } else {
                      
        $this->db->insert('comments', $_POST);
        redirect('blog/comments/'.$_POST['entry_id']);
        }



    }
function comments_insert ()
    {
    $rules['author'] = "trim|required";
        $rules['email'] = "trim|required|valid_email|max_length[50]";
        $rules['body'] = "trim|required|htmlentities|max_length[2000]";
        
    $this->validation->set_rules($rules);

        $fields['author']    = 'Author';
        $fields['body']        = 'body';
        $fields['email']    = 'Email Address';

    $this->validation->set_fields($fields);
        $this->validation->set_error_delimiters('<p class="error">', '</p>');

        if ($this->validation->run() == FALSE) {
        
        $this->load->view('comment_view', $data);
            
        } else {

                          
            $this->db->insert('comments', $_POST);
        
        redirect('blog/comments/'.$_POST['entry_id']);
        }
    }

view

Code:

<?=form_open('blog/comments/' .$this->uri->segment(3));?>
    
<?php     echo $this->validation->error_string; ?>
    
    <fieldset>

        <ul>
            <li><label>Comments (required):</label></li>
            
            <li>&lt;? $data = array(
                                'name'    => 'body',
            
                                );
                                echo form_textarea($data);
                             ?&gt;</li>
            <li><label>Name (required):</label></li>
            <li>&lt;?=form_input('author', $row->author); ?&gt;</li>
            <li><label>URL:</label></li>
            <li>&lt;input type="text" value="http://" name="url" /&gt;&lt;/li>            

            <li><label>Email (not published, required):</label></li>
            <li>&lt;input type="text" value="" name="email" /&gt;&lt;/li>            

            <li>&lt;input type="submit" value="Submit Comment" class="submit" /&gt;&lt;/li>
                
        
        </ul>
        &lt;?=form_hidden('entry_id', $this->uri->segment(3));?&gt;
        
    </fieldset>
    &lt;/form&gt;