form validation in code igniter

[gibbo1715]

All

 

I was introduced via this forum to a fantastic framework called codeigniter which im assuming a number of you are familiar with

 

I have got everything i want working except for the validation aspect where i need a little help and i ll try and explain how i ve got things set up as best i can

 

I have been playing using arrays to populate my form view data as follows

 

//Set up the table components as I want them viewed here

$data['ftitle']		= array('name'=>'title',
                            'size'=>30
				  );
$data['fauthor']	= array('name'=>'author',
                            'size'=>30
				  );
$data['fpublisher']	= array('name'=>'publisher',
                            'size'=>30
				  );
$data['favailable']	= array('name'=>'available',
                            'value'=>'yes',
						'checked'=>TRUE
				  );
$data['fsummary']	= array('name'=>'summary',
                            'rows'=>5,
						'cols'=>60
				  );	

				  

//end books *******************************************					  
return $data;	

 

 

In in my view page i call this as follows

 

<th><? echo $publisher ?> </th>	
<!--Validation from my form_validation.php file in the config folder-->
<th><? echo form_input($fpublisher).br(); ?> 
<?php echo form_error('publisher'); ?>
</th>					

and so on.....

 

This all works fine and i can get the form validation working as well but i cant figure out how to not loose my data when the validation fails

 

im aware of the set_value() function but not sure how i would use that as part of my form_input command?

 

Can anyone assist or do i need to go a totally different route

 

thanks

 

gibbo

 

P.S. hope that makes sense if not i ll try and explain a little better

 

 

[dual_alliance]

It's quite simply really, you just set it in the array.

 

For example:

 

$data['ftitle']      = array('name'=>'title',
                            'size' => 30,
                           'value' => set_value('title')
                 );
$data['fauthor']   = array('name'=>'author',
                            'size' => 30,
                            'value' => set_value('author')
                 );

 

And so on...