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11-04-2007, 05:26 AM

[eluser]SouthOfZeeland[/eluser]
Howdy!

I have a problem with the validation error message. When I submit a form, and a required field is missing, the error message should read "Title is a required field". But the error message I get is "is a required field".

I have made sure that my input-field has the same 'name' as my $rules['name'] and $fields['name']. The standard error message is "%s is a required field".

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

TIA

11-04-2007, 06:40 AM

[eluser]gtech[/eluser]
Hello its very difficult to see without your code whats going on.. I tried following the example from the validation documentation and the %s worked fine for me, maybee you could cut and copy the code examples, especially the controller in "Callbacks: Your own Validation Functions". Then you can satisfy yourself it works.

the following code also worked for me (slightly modified from documentation)

Code:
function index()

    {

        $this->load->helper(array('form', 'url'));    

        $this->load->library('validation');

                $this->validation->set_message('required', '%s custom message here');

        $rules['password']    = "required";

        $rules['passconf']    = "required";

        $this->validation->set_rules($rules);

        if ($this->validation->run() == FALSE)

        {

            $this->load->view('myform');

        }

        else

        {

            $this->load->view('formsuccess');

        }

    }

views/myform.php

Code:
&lt;html&gt;

  &lt;head&gt;

    &lt;title&gt;My Form&lt;/title&gt;

  &lt;/head&gt;

  &lt;body&gt;

    &lt;?=$this->validation->error_string; ?&gt;

    &lt;?=form_open('form'); ?&gt;

      <h5>Password</h5>

      &lt;input type="text" name="password" value="" size="50" /&gt;

      <h5>Password Confirm</h5>

      &lt;input type="text" name="passconf" value="" size="50" /&gt;

      <div>&lt;input type="submit" value="Submit" /&gt;</div>

    &lt;/form&gt;

  &lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

resulting in

Code:
password custom message here

passconf custom message here

11-04-2007, 06:50 AM

[eluser]SouthOfZeeland[/eluser]
Controller:

Code:
$rules["title"] = "required|max_length[255]";

$this->validation->set_rules($rules);

$fields["title"] = $this->input->post("title");

$this->validation->set_fields($fields);

if ($this->validation->run() == FALSE) {

   //load view and so on

}

View:

Code:
&lt;?php echo $this->validation->error_string; ?&gt;

<p><label for="title">Title</label>

&lt;input type="text" name="title" id="title" size="100" value="&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;validation->title; ?&gt;" /></p>

That's my code. The value in the lang-file is

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

11-04-2007, 07:16 AM

[eluser]gtech[/eluser]
humm I see what you mean.. the set_fields seems to be overwriting the set_rules, if you take the set_fields out it works.. let me have a play with the code..

11-04-2007, 08:18 AM

[eluser]gtech[/eluser]
OK I have an answer but not sure you will like it :-(

When using set fields the $fields["title"] bit has the text string of what will appear in the error message (it will be substituted in the %s bit of your default error message). The value that appears in your textinput box will be your the post result NOT what you set $fields["title"] to.

Hope that helps :-) it confused me.

Code:
&lt;?php

class Form extends Controller {

  function index()

  {

    $this->load->helper(array('form', 'url'));

    $this->load->library('validation');

    $rules["title"] = "required|max_length[2]";

    $this->validation->set_rules($rules);

    $fields["title"] = "FILED NAME TO DISPLAY IN ERROR MESSAGE GOES HERE";

    $this->validation->set_fields($fields);

    if ($this->validation->run() == FALSE) {

       $this->load->view('myform');

    } 

  }

}

?&gt;

11-04-2007, 08:50 AM

[eluser]SouthOfZeeland[/eluser]
Ah, now I see! It works now!

Thanks a bundle!