Question

Can I display a single message for the multiple form fields in CodeIgniter?
For example, I have set following rules for the email and password fields. I want to display only one message if any of these two fields is invalid. (eg. invalid email or password “)

$this->form_validation->set_rules('email_address', 'Email Address', 'valid_email|required');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('password', 'Password', 'required|min_length[4]');

How i can do that? Thanks for any help.

Edit: Sorry if my question is not clear. Currently I’m using validation_errors(), and i get errors of each field. However, I want to show a same error message if any of the two fields (email or password) is invalid. No matter if email is invalid, or if password is invalid, or both are invalid, it should print a single message, such as: invalid email or password.

Answer 1

I’m not sure if this is what you need, but you can try:

if($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE){
   $message = 'Your error message here'; //validation_errors() works too.
}else{
   $message = 'Your success message here';
}

$this->load->view('yourview',array('feedback_message'=>$message));

If you don’t care which field isn’t valid, then this snippet is ok. “Something is wrong, i don’t care what’s wrong, tell the user”.