Question

I have tried many different things including adding $this->load->helper(array('form', 'url')); to autoload.php, among other things.

When I fill out a value for first name and last name and nothing else and press submit, it just redirects back to the same page (not to clientRegistrationSuccess.php) as specified in the if{} else{}

Form (View)

 echo validation_errors();

       echo form_open('index/pages/clientcreation',$CustCreationFormAttr);
        echo form_label('First Name: ','fname');
            echo form_input($CustCreationFirstName);echo '<br>';
        echo form_label('Last Name: ','lname');
            echo form_input($CustCreationLastName);echo '<br>';
        echo form_label('Title: ', 'title');
            echo form_input($CustCreationClientTitle);echo '<br>';
        echo form_label('Company: ', 'co');
            echo form_input($CustCreationCompany);echo '<br>';
        echo form_label('Email: ','email');
            echo form_input($CustCreationEmail);echo '<br>';
            echo form_submit($CustCreationSubmit,'Submit'); 

Controller

class Clientcreation extends CI_Controller
    {   
        function index(){
            ####################################
            $this->load->view('navigation');
            $this->load->view('pages/clientcreation');
            $this->load->view('footer');   

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

            ## Set Validation
            $this->form_validation->set_rules('fname', 'First Name', 'required');
        $this->form_validation->set_rules('lname', 'Last Name', 'required');

            ## Perform Validation
            if ($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE){
                $this->load->view('pages/clientcreation');
            }
        else{
                $this->load->view('pages/success/clientRegistrationSuccess');
        }
        } 

    }

Additionally, the form is loading as intended… like:

The paths match up too, because if I change $this->load->view('pages/clientcreation'); to $this->load->view('pages/hi'); it is calling this view. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

This was a silly mistake on my part.

The reason the validation wasn’t working is, I was trying to output the validation errors directly in my view, when I should have been outputting on the controller, like:

if ($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE){
             echo validation_errors();
            $this->load->view('pages/clientcreation');
        }

on the controller end, NOT on the view.
(at the top)