single error message for all the validations?

Hi, take a look at the code:

PHP Code:

[
        'field'  => 'action',
        'label'  => 'in',
        'rules'  => 'required|alpha|max_length[5]',
        'errors' => [
            'required'   => 'Something missing!',
            'alpha'      => 'Something missing!',
            'max_length' => 'Something missing!'
        ]
    ] 


as you can already guess that i am trying to hide the default error messages and override each of them with a custom string, is there any way to do it once? Like this:

PHP Code:

[
        'field'  => 'action',
        'label'  => 'in',
        'rules'  => 'required|alpha|max_length[5]',
        'default_error' => 'Something missing!';
    ] 


You could use the error_array() function for this purpose.

PHP Code:

$error_array = $this->form_validation->error_array();
if (is_array($error_array ) && !empty($error_array)) {

    // Generate a single message for all fields combined:
    echo '<div class="error">Something is wrong with the form values.</div>';

    // Or loop through the errors and output a message per fieldname
    foreach($error_array  as $fieldname => $message) {
        // The $message variable contains the message you want to hide
        echo '<div class="error">There is a problem with the value for the ' . $fieldname . ' field.</div>';
    }

}