Flash Data Without Redirect

[eluser]boltsabre[/eluser]
Why don't you just use a form normally?

Basically you'd create a callback validation function function, which checks if the user exists, and if they don't display your validation message.

By using the inbuilt codeigniter form functions you can display your validation messge instead of trying to do it with flashsdata, and you can also populate the form data back into the inputs easily using the set_value() function.

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...elper.html