Question

I have a form in a page that pass the output data to another page containing another form.

The problem is that when I try to browse the second page, the validation errors of this page are displayed, because it see the POST array from the form in the page 1 and so it doesn’t have the same inputs required to pass the validation error, it display the validation message.

Here is the code in the controller of the second form:

function download_application()
{
    //load the libraries
    $this->load->library('form_validation');

    //form validation
    $this->form_validation->set_rules('name', 'name is required', 'required');
    $this->form_validation->set_rules('email', 'email  is required', 'required|valid_email');
    $this->form_validation->set_rules('country', 'country is required', 'required');
    $this->form_validation->set_rules('phone', 'phone is required', 'required');

    if($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE){
        //error in the form
    }else{
        //no error in the form          
    }
}

Answer 1

i have two solution as logic i didn’t write php but by logic
1. u can add value to your button and in the second page check this value if it didn’t equal value then u didn’t validate it
2. add hidden filed and pass it to check this value in the second page